Clinical Case. Annular

plaques on the cheek. What is your diagnosis?

F. Peral Rubio, M.D.Department of Dermatology Complejo Hospitalario

Universitario, Badajoz, Spain.

A 17-year-old male patient presented with well-defined brownish erythematous plaques with mild central atrophy on his cheek.

The lesions had been present since 4 months and had shown exacerbation on sun exposure.

Clinical Case. Annular

plaques on the cheek.

Histopathologic studies of the biopsy specimens:◦Mild to moderate degrees of liquefaction.◦Degeneration of the epidermal basal cell

layer.◦Moderate band-like to moderate

perivascular lymphocytic infiltration of the upper- and middermis and pigmentary incontinence.

Clinical Case. Annular

plaques on the cheek.

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F. Peral Rubio, M.D.Department of Dermatology Complejo Hospitalario Universitario, Badajoz, Spain.

Clinical Case. Annular

plaques on the cheek.