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Primary localized cutaneous amyloidosis in association with papillary thyroid carcinoma
Yoshiko Sangen1, Akira Kawada, Akira Maeda
1Department of Dermatology, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery
|April 16, 2002
Abstract
Background:
Lichen amyloidosis, a type of primary localized cutaneous amyloidosis, is characterized by pruritic brown or grayish pigmented papules.
Objective:
We report a case of lichen amyloidosis in which the skin lesion consisted of asymptomatic salmon-pink-colored papules on the back of the neck to the upper back. This was different from typical clinical pictures of lichen amyloidosis. Our patient proved to have thyroid papillary carcinoma.
Conclusion:
Our case may suggest that lichen amyloidosis could be a cutaneous manifestation of thyroid cancers.