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Linear Warty Lesions in a Child
Yong-Kwang Tay, MD;
Beng-Hock Ong, MD
National Skin Centre, Singapore
Arch Dermatol. 1999;135:1543-1548.
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REPORT OF A CASE
A 3-year-old Chinese boy presented with scattered, asymptomatic warty papules on his right leg that had developed over the past 6 months. The lesions were stable, with no tendency for spontaneous resolution. There was no family history of similar lesions.
On physical examination, there were scattered, discrete, firm, keratotic papules, some with a raised rim, situated over the right popliteal fossa, right calf, and right tendo calcaneus (Figure 1 and Figure 2). The child was otherwise in good health.
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Figure 1.
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Figure 2.
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A diagnostic biopsy specimen was obtained from a papule on the right calf. The histopathologic features are shown in Figure 3.
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Figure 3.
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What is your diagnosis?
Diagnosis: Linear porokeratosis.
Hematoxylin-eosin–stained sections revealed irregular epidermal hyperplasia with a vertical column of parakeratotic cells, the so-called cornoid lamella. Beneath the cornoid lamella, the granular layer was decreased, and there were many dyskeratotic . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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