Chronic Progressive Pigmentary Purpura
1968; American Medical Association; Volume: 116; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1001/archpedi.1968.02100020433017
ISSN2374-3018
Autores Tópico(s)Eosinophilic Disorders and Syndromes
ResumoSINCE 1896, there has been described, although almost exclusively in the dermatologic literature, a group of purpuric pigmented eruptions having variable clinical features with individual eponyms, but having similar histopathologic alterations. In two variants of this general disorder described successively by Majocchi 1-3 and Schamberg, 4 the clinical and histologic findings are frequently so similar that differentiation is irrelevant. Accordingly, an inclusive designation of chronic pigmentary purpura has been proposed. 5 Although a well-established entity in adult dermatology, chronic pigmentary purpura has been, to our knowledge, previously reported in preadolescent children only on four other occasions. 4,6-8 It is important that this disorder be recognized and distinguished from other more serious purpuras of childhood. This report describes the clinical and pathologic findings of a case of chronic progressive pigmentary purpura occurring in a young boy. Report of a Case The patient, a white boy presently 12 years old, initially presented
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