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sQuiz your knowledge: An extensive verrucous rash with a whorled and linear pattern Volume 31, numéro 1, January-February 2021

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Department of Dermatovenereology, Chengdu Second People's Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
* These authors contributed equally.

A 61-year-old man presented with an extensive, dark-brown verrucous rash with a whorled and linear pattern of distribution following Blaschko's lines over the whole body (figure 1A, B). The rash presented on his left lower limb at birth and grew gradually. He had undergone several carbon dioxide laser treatments. The patient was otherwise healthy with no correlative family history. Histopathological examination revealed hyperkeratosis, acanthosis, papillomatosis, and increased melanin in the basal [...]