TELANGIECTASIA MACULARIS ERUPTIVA PERSTANS - A CASE-REPORT AND REVIEWOF THE LITERATURE

We report a 20-year-old female patient with telangiectasia macularis e ruptiva perstans characterised by telangiectatic macular lesions and e pisodic flushing, two lesions of which were successfully treated by la ser. Two clinically Discussion different forms of cutaneous mastocytos is have both been previously described as telangiectasia macularis eru ptive perstans, and we now propose that this term be restricted to cut aneous mastocytosis characterised by the typical telangiectatic macule s.