Poster
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6th Internet World Congress for Biomedical Sciences |
leonardo bugatti(1), giorgio filosa(2), massimiliano nicolini(3), roberto verdolini(4)
(1)(2)dept of dermatology. "A. Murri" Hospital Jesi - Jesi. Italy
(3)(4)Dept of Dermatology. "A. Murri" Hospital Jesi - jesi . Italy
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leonardo bugatti dept of dermatology "A. Murri" Hospital Jesi Jesi ancona 60035 Italy lbugatti@tin.it |
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We present the case of an 82-yrs old women affected by a skin affection of 30 years duration, consisting of asymptomatic yellow streaks horizontally and simmetrically crossing the middle and lower sides of the trunk. A bioptic specimen showed a normal epidermis and an haphazardly oriented, fragmented fibrillar material surrounded by thicked collagen bundles in the middle and deep dermis. A Gomori-stain showed an increased number of elastic fibers arranged in a wavy pattern between collagen bundles in the same location. The diagnosis of linear focal elastosis (LFE) was made. LFE was reported by Burket in 1989. It is a disorder of dermal elastic tissue where pathogenesis is still unclear. While some Authors believe that LFE is a peculiar variant of striae distensae, others argue that LFE must be considered an hamartomatous/nevoid degenerative or rigenerative process of elastic fibers.
Bibliography:
1. Burket JM, et al. Linear focal elastosis (elastotic striae). J Am Acad Dermatol 1989;20:633-6
2.Tamaday,et al. Linear focal elastosis. A review of three cases in young Japanese men. J Am Acad Dermatol. 1997;36:301-3.
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