Twisted and Rolled Body Hairs: A New Report in Asians

216 Ann Dermatol Received February 25, 2014, Revised May 22, 2014, Accepted for publication May 23, 2014 Corresponding author: Jee-Bum Lee, Department of Dermatology, Chonnam National University Hospital, 42 Jebong-ro, Dong-gu, Gwangju 501-757, Korea. Tel: 82-62-220-6684, Fax: 82-62-222-4058, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. with a single report of a response to isotretinoin. In our current report, the patient was previously treated with PDL and fractional laser therapy >10 times. She was a housewife living in an urban area. We thought that the actinic granuloma resulted from the repeated laser therapy-induced heat and/or actinic damage. And, the damage may have destroyed the elastic fiber, which triggers an inflammatory response that causes granulomas. We describe an unusual case of actinic granuloma arising from the laser therapy treated skin.