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Department of Dermatology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China

A 42-year-old woman presented with a ten-year history of slightly pruritic brown plaques on the trunk (figure 1). Friction could induce Darier sign. The patient could not recall any previous skin lesions in the past.What is the diagnosis?A case of cutaneous plasmacytosis with mast cell infiltrationIn this patient, the slightly itchy brown plaques with positive Darier's sign were observed, initially suggestive of UP. As signs of mastocytosis are unspecific and may often overlap with other diseases [...]