Small-spotted, disseminated variant with barely 0.5 cm, whitish, surface-smooth patches or barely palpable, flat papules. A "lilac ring" is usually absent in this circumscribed scleroderma variant. Systemic involvement is not known in this variant.
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Morphea guttataL94.0
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trunk, rarely extremities, no infestation of face, capillitium, genitalia
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Clinical differentiation from extragenital lichen sclerosus (white spot disease) is difficult. However, the guttate form of morphea lacks the crinkly shiny surface of lichen sclerosus.
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- Russell B (1947) Morphœa guttata. Proc R Soc Med 40:506.
- Stejskalová A et al (1990) Papulosis maligna atrophicans (Degos' syndrome). Sb Lek 92:1-5.
- Wiliams AW (1912). Morphoea guttata. Proc R Soc Med. 5(Dermatol Sect):97.