Abstract
4/2021
vol. 38
Letter to the Editor
The sparing phenomenon of cutaneous amyloidosis
- Department of Dermatology, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
- Department of Dermatology, ShenZhen Traditional Chinese Medicine, ShenZhen, China
Adv Dermatol Allergol 2021; XXXVIII (4): 694–695
Online publish date: 2021/09/17
The sparing phenomenon (SP) denotes a particular skin disease which spares an anatomic site or an area affected by other skin disorders [1]. SP occurs in miscellaneous skin conditions such as herpes zoster, drug eruptions, alopecia areata and so on. For the first time, both the nipple-areola complex and the depigmented skin in vitiligo were found to be spared in cutaneous amyloidosis.
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