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A Child with Hypopigmented Patches

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A 7-year-old boy presented with hypopigmented patches on his face 5 months ago. The lesions started as small hypopigmented macules on the cheeks and gradually increased in number and size. The lesions were asymptomatic with no preceding erythema or inflammation, so his mother did not pay much attention.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Le Huu Doanh, Nguyen Van Thuong & Michael Tirant

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  1. Dermatology, University of Rome Guglielmo Marconi, Rome, Italy

    Torello Lotti

  2. Dermatology, University of Rome Guglielmo Marconi, Rome, Italy

    Michael Tirant

  3. Department of Dermatology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

    Davinder Parsad

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Doanh, L.H., Van Thuong, N., Tirant, M. (2020). A Child with Hypopigmented Patches. In: Lotti, T., Tirant, M., Parsad, D. (eds) Clinical Cases in Pigmentary Disorders. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50823-4_26

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