Two Cases of Linear Focal Elastosis.
10.5021/ad.1999.11.2.117
- Author:
Gwang Bum AHN
;
Seung Ho CHANG
;
Tae Young YOON
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Linear focal elastosis
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Biopsy;
Coloring Agents;
Elastic Tissue;
Epidermis;
Female;
Humans;
Male;
Skin
- From:Annals of Dermatology
1999;11(2):117-120
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
We report two cases of linear focal elastosis. They are a 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy who had had asymptomatic, several, yellow-red, slightly elevated, palpable, striae-like lesions on their middle and lower back since their early childhood. Light microscopic examinations of skin biopsy specimens demonstrated dermal thickening and focal increases of thin wavy fibers in the upper and mid-dermis but no changes in the epidermis. Verhoeff-van Gieson stains for elastic fiber revealed aggregated, clumped, curled, or fragmented elastic fibers.
