... revealed several dome-shaped ivory colored cysts of up to 6 mm in size and several comedones. Facial skin showed pronounced solar elastosis with yellowish discoloration and wrinkling (fig. 1 ). He had been smoking 20 cigarettes per day for the past 5 decades. Also, he had been working for 17 years...

... keratoses were observed in patients with the second morphological variety of EV. Solar elastosis was found in biopsies taken from EV lesions in this subgroup of patients. A particular rarity of seborrhoeic keratosis in Africans is emphasized as no single African case of seborrhoeic keratosis was found apart...

... of willingness to carry out biopsies from pigmented lesions, particularly if flat, of the face in younger people; however, even pathologists could face with equivocal microscopic features, mainly because young skin is expected to be devoid of solar elastosis. The latter feature is considered as a sine qua non...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Poikiloderma Rosacea Solar elastosis Telangiectasia Flushing Correspondence and Opinions Dermatology 2005;211:386...