[Acquired atrophic pigmented band-like lesions following Blaschko's lines].

Over a seventeen years period we observed 5 patients presenting with very similar lesions the equivalent of which we could not find in the literature. These were pigmented and more or less atrophic bands which exactly followed Blaschko's lines. The lesions appeared during childhood or adolescence, between the ages of 6 and 20 years and always were unilateral. In all cases they were located on the trunk where they formed a recumbent "S" pattern...