Liquen estriado: características clínicas e histológicas

Abstract

Hypopigmented skin lesions are frequent motive for consultation in the childhood. Several dermatological diseases are expressed by macules of whitish coloration and the lichen striatus is one of them; it is an autolimited, inflammatory and acquired dermatosis that has benign course and unknown etiology. The histological image is considered few specific; it is necessary to carry out clinical and histological approach. A case of a 9-year-old schoolgirl who presented papulous and pruriginous lesions with whitish coloration in the shape of linear plaques, located in the left hemithorax and left forearm is presented. Rev.cienc.biomed. 2013;4(2):335-338

Keywords

• Striatus lichen; Blaschko’s lines; Dermatosis; dermatology