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Pityriasis Alba

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Clinical Cases in Skin of Color

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Abstract

A 15-year-old Fitzpatrick Skin Type (FST) IV female with a history of atopic dermatitis and allergic rhinitis presented with light spots on her bilateral cheeks since childhood, worse in the summer, with occasional associated pruritus.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine, 609 Albany St. J602, Boston, MA, 02118, USA

    Yunyoung Claire Chang MD & Neelam A. Vashi MD

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Correspondence to Neelam A. Vashi MD .

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  1. Montgomery Dermatology, Montgomery, Alabama, USA

    Porcia B. Love

  2. Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Roopal V. Kundu

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Chang, Y.C., Vashi, N.A. (2016). Pityriasis Alba. In: Love, P., Kundu, R. (eds) Clinical Cases in Skin of Color. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22392-6_17

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