Laugier and hunziker pigmentation: a lentiginous proliferation of melanocytes - 24/08/11
Abstract |
Macular pigmentation of Laugier and Hunziker is an acquired disorder involving lips, oral mucosa, acral surfaces, nail apparatus, or a combination of these in the absence of systemic disease, and is reported to show intraepidermal melanosis without melanocytosis. We present a 69-year-old white man with typical features of this disorder, involving lips and oral mucosa, first appearing 4 years before presentation. A pigmented macule on sun-exposed lip vermilion revealed increased numbers of slightly atypical melanocytes in a lentiginous epidermal pattern. A buccal mucosa pigmented macule and adjacent nonpigmented mucosa were studied using hematoxylin and eosin staining, and S-100 and L-3,4 dihydroxyphenylalanine histochemistry. The buccal mucosa macule revealed markedly increased numbers of dendritic, L-3,4 dihydroxyphenylalanine-reactive intraepithelial melanocytes. Further studies are warranted to determine if this pigmentation disorder represents a spectrum of histopathologic change or, in fact, should be renamed mucocutaneous lentiginosis of Laugier and Hunziker.
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Vol 50 - N° 5S
P. 70-74 - mai 2004 Retour au numéroBienvenue sur EM-consulte, la référence des professionnels de santé.
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