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José C. Pascual, MD; Encarnación Giménez, MD; Francisca Sivera, MD; Antonio Martinez, MD
Hospital General Universitario de Elche, Elche, Spain (Drs Pascual, Giménez, and Martinez), and Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Alicante, Spain (Dr Sivera)

Arch Dermatol. 2007;143(1):109-114.

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REPORT OF A CASE

A 24-year-old woman presented with a 2-year history of round and oval atrophic lesions with a wrinkled overlying surface (Figure 1) and whitish soft papules (Figure 2) localized on the chest, upper back area, and upper extremities. Her medical history was unremarkable except for photosensitivity. A complete laboratory evaluation showed lymphocytopenia (lymphocytes, 0.9x10³/µL; reference range, 1.5-4.5x10³/µL), hypocomplementemia (C3, 0.43 g/L [reference range, 0.93-1.88 g/L]; and C4, 0.06 g/L [reference range, 0.15-0.48 g/L]), and positive antinuclear (1/80 speckled pattern) and anticardiolipin (IgG, 20.2 PGLU/mL [polyclonal rabbit anti–human IgG units per milliliter] [reference value, <10 PGLU/mL]; and IgM, 29.2 MGLU/mL [polyclonal rabbit anti–human IgM units per milliliter] [reference value, <8.5 MGLU/mL]) antibody titers. A biopsy specimen from a representative lesion was stained with hematoxylin-eosin (Figure 3) and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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