Frontal fibrosing alopecia and extrafacial lichen planus pigmentosum in a caucasian woman

We present the case of a 72-year-old Caucasian woman with frontal fibrosing alopecia of one year’s duration. Eighteen months later, she presented with sudden hyperpigmentation on the submental area, neck and upper chest. Histopathological examination was consistent with lichen planus pigmentosus. Th...

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Autores principales: Franco-Muñoz, Monserrat, García-Arpa, Monica, Lozano-Masdemont, Belén, Ramos-Rodríguez, Claudia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29267453
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20176638
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author Franco-Muñoz, Monserrat
García-Arpa, Monica
Lozano-Masdemont, Belén
Ramos-Rodríguez, Claudia
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description We present the case of a 72-year-old Caucasian woman with frontal fibrosing alopecia of one year’s duration. Eighteen months later, she presented with sudden hyperpigmentation on the submental area, neck and upper chest. Histopathological examination was consistent with lichen planus pigmentosus. This is the report of a unique case of a FFA and extrafacial lichen planus pigmentosus.
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spelling pubmed-57266842017-12-18 Frontal fibrosing alopecia and extrafacial lichen planus pigmentosum in a caucasian woman Franco-Muñoz, Monserrat García-Arpa, Monica Lozano-Masdemont, Belén Ramos-Rodríguez, Claudia An Bras Dermatol Case Report We present the case of a 72-year-old Caucasian woman with frontal fibrosing alopecia of one year’s duration. Eighteen months later, she presented with sudden hyperpigmentation on the submental area, neck and upper chest. Histopathological examination was consistent with lichen planus pigmentosus. This is the report of a unique case of a FFA and extrafacial lichen planus pigmentosus. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5726684/ /pubmed/29267453 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20176638 Text en ©2017 by Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.
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Franco-Muñoz, Monserrat
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title Frontal fibrosing alopecia and extrafacial lichen planus pigmentosum in a caucasian woman
title_full Frontal fibrosing alopecia and extrafacial lichen planus pigmentosum in a caucasian woman
title_fullStr Frontal fibrosing alopecia and extrafacial lichen planus pigmentosum in a caucasian woman
title_full_unstemmed Frontal fibrosing alopecia and extrafacial lichen planus pigmentosum in a caucasian woman
title_short Frontal fibrosing alopecia and extrafacial lichen planus pigmentosum in a caucasian woman
title_sort frontal fibrosing alopecia and extrafacial lichen planus pigmentosum in a caucasian woman
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29267453
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20176638
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