Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Dermatologia e Venereologia (Oct 2023)

Atypical porphyria cutanea tarda mimicking morphea

  • Maria J. Guimarães,
  • Carlos Nogueira,
  • Catarina Cerqueira,
  • Ana G. Lopes,
  • Celeste Brito,
  • Catarina Araújo

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 81, no. 4

Abstract

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A 65-year-old man with a history of alcohol abuse presented with cicatricial alopecia and whitish sclerotic plaques in the upper chest, distributed mainly on the V area of the lower neck and lower sternum (Fig. 1).