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Monday 5 May 2008

Homogeneous blue pattern

A 65-year-old man presented 6 blue lesions located on his trunk. Dermoscopy revealed a blue structure-less pattern (homogeneous blue pattern).
This patient had been treated 10 years before for a leukaemia. These blue lesions with blue homogeneous patterns not well demarcated corresponded to radiotherapy tattoos.

Radiotherapy tattoo

Radiotherapy tattoo

The main other cause of blue homogeneous pattern is blue nevus.
Here are above two examples of blue nevi.

Blue nevus

Blue nevus