Abstract
Pigmentary disturbance is a very common presentation among Chinese populations. This chapter covers a variety of skin disease characterized with hypopigmentation, hyperpigmentation, and other pigmentary manifestations, including pigmentary demarcation lines, melisma, LEOPARD syndrome, PUVA lentigo, giant congenital melanocytic nevus, nevus of Ota, Ota nevus associated with nevus flammeus, partial depigmentation arising in the nevus of Ito, acquired bilateral nevus of Ota-like macules, acne confined to the Becker’s nevus, neurocutaneous melanosis, progressive acromelanosis, periorbital melanosis, reticulate acropigmentation of Kitamura, Kindler syndrome, Dowling-Degos disease, macromelanosomes in dyschromatosis universalis hereditaria, familial progressive hyperpigmentation, familial progressive hypo- and hyperpigmentation, linear and whorled nevoid hypermelanosis, pointillist melanotic macules, acquired dermal melanocytosis, accidental tattoos, rippling lesions of confluent and reticulated papillomatosis, trichrome vitiligo, pentachrome vitiligo in a segmental pattern, inflammatory vitiligo, coexistence of piebaldism and neurofibromatosis type I, nevus depigmentosus, and stellate spontaneous pseudoscars.
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Zhu, WY. et al. (2018). Pigmentary Disorder. In: Zhu, WY., Tan, C., Zhang, Rz. (eds) Atlas of Skin Disorders. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8037-1_19
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