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Full case: 21-month-old with history of “skin tags” on her gluteal cleft

Rylee Moody, BS;Mary Gibney, MD;Elaine Siegfried, MD

April 4th 2025

Read the full case presentation of a 21-month-old with a history of "skin tags" involving her gluteal cleft,noted at birth.

Diagnose this 21-month-old with history of “skin tags” on her gluteal cleft

Joshua Fitch, Senior Editor ;Rylee Moody, BS;Mary Gibney, MD;Elaine Siegfried, MD

April 2nd 2025

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Minocycline Hyperpigmentation

Ashley Bruns, DO;Elaine Siegfried, MD

February 3rd 2012

A 17-year-old girl being treated for mild acne, anxiety, and depression, presented with an ankle “bruise” related to an injury sustained 2 years earlier. Symptoms resolved with treatment, but the hyperpigmentation persisted.

Chronic Bullous Disease of Childhood

Robert Peterson;Elaine Siegfried, MD

November 4th 2011

A 4-year-old, previously healthy girl presented to a tertiary care children’s hospital emergency department (ED) with large, tense bullae involving up to 40% of her body surface area. The patient’s parents described a 12-day history of itchy, papulovesicular lesions that had progressed into large blisters.