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| Year : 2021 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 59-60 |
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Dermatosis neglecta mimicking macular amyloidosis
Pravesh Yadav, Anuja Yadav, Soumya Agarwal
Department of Dermatology, Santosh Deemed to be University, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Anuja Yadav
Department of Dermatology, Santosh Deemed to be University, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/2455-1732.331784
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Few cases of dermatosis neglecta have been reported in the medical literature, although the diagnosis is well-known to dermatologists. It is characterized by dirty brown-grey cutaneous patches and plaques that can simply be eradicated by rubbing with alcohol pads. In most of the cases, it is associated with a local pathology due to which the patient is afraid to clean the area or any debilitating systemic illness which makes the patient incapable of proper cleansing. Herein, we present a mentally normal, obese male with reticulate hyperpigmentation involving the mid scapular region mimicking macular amyloidosis without any underlying local pathology which turned out to be dermatosis neglecta.
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