[Childhood linear psoriasis]

ABSTRACT

Linear distribution of psoriasis is rare. This presentation offers to physicians some diagnostic difficulty, especially in the absence of a history of preexisiting psoriasis or in the presence of any other linear dermatosis. In the study we report the cases of 3 girls aged repectively 45 yr and 10 yr admitted in our dermatology department. The clinical features and differential diagnosis of this skin disease which, in the children, can be easily mistaken for inflammatory verrucous epidermal nevus, are discressed