Diffuse cutaneous angiomatosis is one of the reactive angiomatoses. Historically, it is associated with lesions located in the lower extremities. Breast localization is uncommon, but may be under-reported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Diffuse dermal angiomatosis is an entity in the spectrum of reactive angiomatoses characterized by erythematous plaques that mainly affect the lower extremities of patients with a personal history of peripheral vascular disease. Involvement of the breast is a rare event that has only been described as single cases in women with large breasts.
Objective: Our main aim is to report three rare cases of diffuse dermal angiomatosis of the breast and to better define their clinical, histopathological, and immunohistochemical characteristics.
Hypertrichosis is a common feature in cutaneous porphyrias, characterized by high accumulation of photoreactive porphyrins. Photothermolysis induced by noncoherent light (755-1200 nm) and energy fluence of 42 J/cm(2) was applied to a patient with hepatoerythropoietic porphyria. Hypertrichosis was almost completely removed after seven sessions without development of skin lesions.
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