Infection with CMV following cardiac surgery was first recognized as a syndrome resembling infec­tious mononucleosis, and in most cases, documented infection with CMV in nonimmunosuppressed adults produces little, if any, disease; however, concomitant viral infection may increase susceptibility to and severity of sepsis in patients with bacterial infection. Immunologic disturbances with CMV infection have been [...]

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The histological findings are variable, including epidermal thinning, a mild perivascular lymphocytic infiltrate, decreased or fragmented elastic fibers and/ or normal or increased collagen in the superficial or mid-dermis. Kolenik et al postulated a slight decrease in elastic fibers beneath the epidermal depression, but several reports have shown a normal amount of elastic fiber in [...]

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Atrophia maculosa varioliformis cutis (AMVC) is a rare condition that is characterized by subtle, slightly depressed lesions on the temples and cheeks at a young age. In the English literature, only 23 cases have been reported since the first description of this condition. Despite the small number of cases, there are several features that make [...]

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A 40-year-old Korean man presented with several asymptomatic, depressed scars on the face. His skin lesions had appeared since the age of 7 and had worsened during the 2 months before he visited our clinic. The patient denied any prior trauma to or inflammation of his face. On physical examination, there were two well-demarcated skin-colored [...]

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INTRODUCTION Atrophia maculosa varioliformis cutis (AMVC) is a rare disease whose characteristics were first noted by Heidingsfeld in 1918 to describe numerous, spontaneously formed scars on the cheeks of a 20-year-old man. Some of those lesions resembled the scars of smallpox. Characteristically, macular atrophy appears spontaneously on the face in the absence of prior trauma [...]

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AMVC is clinically characterized by spontaneous presentation in young individuals with linear and punctate scars on the cheeks and forehead without any inflammatory changes. The etiology of AMVC is unknown, although a familial occurrence has previously been reported, which suggests that AMVC is an inherited disorder rather than a response to an environmental insult. Cases [...]

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A 42-year-old Korean woman presented with a few months history of unusual pitted scars on her left chin. On the physical examination, the facial scars were slightly hyperpigmented and the shape varied from linear and rectangular to round (Fig. 1). They were well demarcated shallow pits that approximately ranged from 0.2 to 1.3 cm in [...]

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