Background: Pregnancy dermatoses includes group of skin conditions that occurs as a result of interactions of multiple factors a body during pregnancy. Dermatoscopy is an inexpensive, non-invasive, less time consuming, non-painful, OPD technique with good patient compliance that allows observation of magnified cutaneous morphologic features in various pregnancy dermatoses and correlate it with clinical findings.
Materials and Methods: A prospective observational study was done on ANC patients attending dermatology OPD with having various skin changes of pregnancy or specific pregnancy dermatoses. Study was carried out in a tertiary care hospital over a period of two years. Lesions of various skin changes in pregnancy and different specific pregnancy dermatoses were clinically diagnosed and were photographed and evaluated by dermatoscopy.
Results: A total of Fifty ANC patients having various skin changes of pregnancy or specific pregnancy dermatoses were included in our study. Out of total Fifty patients studied, Thirteen cases were of linea nigra, Twelve cases of striae gravidarum, Ten cases of chloasma, Six cases of pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP), Five cases of pruritic folliculitis of pregnancy (PF), Two cases of prurigo of pregnancy (PP), One case of pemphigoid gestationis (PG), and One case of vasculitis in pregnancy. All were subjected to dermoscopy which demonstrated various different dermoscopic patterns.
Conclusion: Dermoscopy may be very useful noninvasive tool in diagnosing various pregnancy dermatoses. Further studies on larger groups of patients are needed to confirm our dermoscopic findings.
Impact Factor
2022: 6.012
This work is licensed under a