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Morphea

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Clinical forms:

 

linear (en bande)

linear in shape and situated on the flexor aspect of the leg

 

en coup de sabre

seen without any associated anomaly or as part of hemiatrophies

 

circumscribed (my name)

highly characteristic; spontaneous recovery in children is common

 

atrophoderma (Pasini-Pierini)

slightly hyperpigmented with a sharp “cliff drop” border
a variant of morphea (?) with more atrophy than sclerosis
most common in adolescent girls
the atrophic process is limited strictly to the dermal collagen

 

 

 

treatment:  PUVA, dovonex