The medical name for hives is urticaria. Hives are itchy red or white bumps on the skin that look like a nettle rash. Hives are caused by a...
5 months ago

White sun spots are caused by a decrease in pigmentation in your skin. Conditions like vitiligo and tinea versicolor can be affected by...
29 months ago

All light spots are not the same, according to our eczema experts. Here they discuss how to treat light spots when you have eczema.
11 months ago

Small white spots on arms, or “reverse freckles” are a benign skin condition called idiopathic guttate hypomelanosis.
58 months ago

If you've noticed white patches popping up on your skin, they might be anything from warts to vitiligo.
33 months ago

The answer is E: vitiligo. Vitiligo is characterized by asymptomatic, acquired, amelanotic macules and patches that are milky or chalk-white in color.
70 months ago

An otherwise healthy man in his 40s presented with white macules and patches that appeared on his skin several years ago. Initially, he noticed asymptomatic...
54 months ago

Many of us have tiny white spots on our skin as a result of the sun. Here's what dermatologists want you to know.
15 months ago

The answer is C: steroid-induced hypopigmentation. A single patch of hypopigmented skin over a joint space leads to high suspicion for an exogenous condition.
87 months ago

The painless, sharply demarcated, demelanotic macules and patches appeared in a linear distribution above her right eyebrow, in keeping with the diagnosis of...
74 months ago