Sotolongo DD, Perdomo RO, Pérez JAY, Alvarez FHB

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ABSTRACT

Pigmentosa urticaria is one of the several forms of cutaneous mastocytosis that happen where there are too many inflammatory cells (mastocites) in the skin. It is observed most frequently in children from 3 months to 3 years of age. A case of a breastfeeding of 3 months, feminine, white, with health antecedents was presented. Under the dermatological examination she presented a cutaneous episode scattered by the face, inferior trunk and members, respecting palms and plants, constituted by papules, brownish erythematous blotch, with the sign of positive Darier, and histopathologically with own alterations of the disease, that showed a dense inflammatory infiltrating of mature mast cells, with lichenoide distribution, located in the papillary dermal and media, without epidermic location. Children with cutaneous mastocytosis (urticaria pigmentosa), a percent of them have a very high risk to present a severe clinical behavior, if it does not send, tends to become sistemic, because of this the importance of their monitoring.

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