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Nodular amyloidosis
Forrest White1, Marianna Shvartsbeyn, Shane A Meehan
1New York University School of Medicine.
Abstract:
Nodular amyloidosis is the rarest form of primary cutaneous amyloidosis. We report the case of a 74-year-old woman with an eight-year history of asymptomatic, hyperpigmented plaques on the pretibial areas. A skin biopsy specimen showed deposits of amorphous eosinophilic material that extended throughout the dermis with apple-green birefringence with a Congo-red stain, which established a diagnosis of nodular amyloidosis. Patients with nodular amyloidosis should be evaluated for systemic disease and followed appropriately due to a small risk of progression to systemic amyloidosis.
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