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Dermatology Practical & Conceptual
Childhood flexural comedones
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                             Childhood Flexural Comedones
                             Li-wen Zhang1, MD, Juan Wu2, Lu Zheng1, Tao Chen1


1 Department of Dermatovenereology, Chengdu Second People’s Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
2 Sexually Transmitted Disease Institute, Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China



Citation: Zhang L, Wu J, Zheng L, Chen T. Childhood flexural comedones. Dermatol Pract Concept. 2022;12(2):e2022053.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5826/dpc.1202a53
Accepted: August 14, 2021; Published: April 2022
Copyright: ©2022 Zhang et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial License (BY-NC-4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/, which permits unrestricted noncommercial use,
distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.
Funding: None.
Competing interests: None.
Authorship: All authors have contributed significantly to this publication.
Corresponding author: Tao Chen, Department of Dermatovenereology, Chengdu Second People’s Hospital, 165 Caoshi Street, Chengdu
610017, Sichuan, China. E-mail: 13980427003@163.com




Case Presentation                                                        Childhood flexural comedones (CFC) with late diagnosis in
                                                                         adulthood was established.
A 20-year-old female complained of an asymptomatic
­papule on the left postauricular skin that occurred shortly
                                                                         Teaching Point
after birth. The lesion presented a single papule with double-­
orifice comedones (Figure 1A). At the same site, previous skin           CFC usually occur in the skin folds including axilla, neck,
lesion or inflammation were not observed. The dermoscopy                 cubital fossa, and perineum, and present as double open-
manifested double-ended pseudo-comedones (Figure 1B).                    ing comedones connected by a thin layer of the epidermis.




Figure 1. (A) A single papule with double-orifice comedones on the left postauricular skin. (B) The dermoscopy manifested double-ended
pseudo-comedon.



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