You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Miscellanea
Images in paediatrics
Inflammatory morphea presenting as a hemifacial acquired port-wine stain
  1. Andrea Bassi1,2,
  2. Paola Piccini1,
  3. Cesare Filippeschi1,
  4. Teresa Oranges1,
  5. Teresa Giani3,
  6. Iria Neri4,
  7. Rolando Cimaz3,
  8. Maurizio de Martino1
  1. 1 Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
  2. 2 Department of Pediatric Medicine, Anna Meyer Children’s University Hospital, Florence, Italy
  3. 3 Department of Rheumatology, Anna Meyer Children’s Hospital, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
  4. 4 Department of Dermatology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  1. Correspondence to Dr Paola Piccini, Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Anna Meyer Children’s University Hospital, Florence 50125, Italy; paola.piccini{at}unifi.it
View Full Text

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2017-314721

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    An otherwise healthy 7-year-old girl presented with non-tender, erythematous patches on the left side of her face. The lesions started under the left eye and involved more of the left side of the face with a well demarcated red line on the forehead, nose and the labial mucosa (figure 1). The lesions were non-blanching and were similar to a congenital port-wine stain (PWS) …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Contributors AB and PP drafted the manuscript. TO and CF were responsible for literature search. TG, IN, RC and MdM critically revisited the manuscript.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Copyright information:

    © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2019. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.