Minocycline-induced hyperpigmentation

A 62-year-old male with a long history of rosacea, which was well controlled on minocycline, presented to his primary care physician for routine examination. Physical examination was noted for non-palpable, non-pruritic blue patches of hyperpigmentation on the medial aspects of his lower extremities...

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Autores principales: Fiscus, Valena, Hankinson, Andrew, Alweis, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2014
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Clinical Imaging
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25147636
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v4.24063
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description A 62-year-old male with a long history of rosacea, which was well controlled on minocycline, presented to his primary care physician for routine examination. Physical examination was noted for non-palpable, non-pruritic blue patches of hyperpigmentation on the medial aspects of his lower extremities bilaterally. Recognition and management of the findings are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-41200552014-08-21 Minocycline-induced hyperpigmentation Fiscus, Valena Hankinson, Andrew Alweis, Richard J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Clinical Imaging A 62-year-old male with a long history of rosacea, which was well controlled on minocycline, presented to his primary care physician for routine examination. Physical examination was noted for non-palpable, non-pruritic blue patches of hyperpigmentation on the medial aspects of his lower extremities bilaterally. Recognition and management of the findings are discussed. Co-Action Publishing 2014-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4120055/ /pubmed/25147636 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v4.24063 Text en © 2014 Valena Fiscus et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Minocycline-induced hyperpigmentation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120055/
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