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Hydroa vacciniforme persistent in a 60-year-old man Volume 9, numéro 4, June 1999

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III Division of Dermatology, Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata, IRCCS, via Monti di Creta 104, 00167 Roma, Italy.
  • Page(s) : 311-2
  • Année de parution : 1999

Hydroa vacciniforme (HV) is an extremely rare chronic photodermatosis of unknown origin, with onset in childhood and spontaneous resolution in adolescence or early adulthood. The lesions consist of vesiculopapules with epidermal necrosis, and resolve invariably leaving varioliform scars [1, 2]. The course of HV is characterized by recurrent flares upon sun exposure, and, in many cases, lesions can be reproduced with repeated [...]