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How to tell the difference between pityriasis alba or something similar?
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Scale: Pityriasis alba is usually scaly and hypopigmented. Vitiiligo is not scaly and hypopigmented. However, mycosis fungoides can be hypopigmented and scaly. sometimes a biopsy is necessary to distinguih.
Answered 7/14/2016
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