Physiological Striae Atrophicae of Adolescence with Involvement of the Upper Back

We report a 13-year-old boy with multiple purplish, atrophic, horizontal linear striae in the thoracic area. He reported a growth spurt in the preceding 12 months. His past health was unremarkable, and he took no medications. To our knowledge, physiological striae atrophicae of adolescence where idi...

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Autores principales: Leung, Alexander K. C., Barankin, Benjamin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3728501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23956908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/386094
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description We report a 13-year-old boy with multiple purplish, atrophic, horizontal linear striae in the thoracic area. He reported a growth spurt in the preceding 12 months. His past health was unremarkable, and he took no medications. To our knowledge, physiological striae atrophicae of adolescence where idiopathic striae were restricted to the upper back have rarely been reported. Physiological striae atrophicae of adolescence may, on occasions, be mistaken for child abuse. It is important that child care professionals recognize this condition so that false accusations of child abuse will not be made.
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spelling pubmed-37285012013-08-16 Physiological Striae Atrophicae of Adolescence with Involvement of the Upper Back Leung, Alexander K. C. Barankin, Benjamin Case Rep Pediatr Case Report We report a 13-year-old boy with multiple purplish, atrophic, horizontal linear striae in the thoracic area. He reported a growth spurt in the preceding 12 months. His past health was unremarkable, and he took no medications. To our knowledge, physiological striae atrophicae of adolescence where idiopathic striae were restricted to the upper back have rarely been reported. Physiological striae atrophicae of adolescence may, on occasions, be mistaken for child abuse. It is important that child care professionals recognize this condition so that false accusations of child abuse will not be made. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3728501/ /pubmed/23956908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/386094 Text en Copyright © 2013 A. K. C. Leung and B. Barankin. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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