A case of faun tail naevus treated by intense pulsed light.
A faun tail is abnormal lumbar hypertrichosis that is characterized by a wide, often triangular or lozenge-shaped patch of coarse hair, and this hair is usually several inches long. Faun tail is a rare entity. A 36-year-old male presented with a triangular shaped hair tuft with terminal hair on the lumbosacral area, and he'd had this unusual hair since birth. There were no neurologic signs or abnormality on his spine X-ray. The MRI scan showed disc degeneration and loss of lodordosis. We report here on a rare case of faun tail, which was a form of localized hypertrichosis on the lumbosacral area, and this was successfully treated with intense pulsed (IPL) light.
Lee
Hye In
HI
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea.
Rho
Yong Kwan
YK
Kim
Beom Joon
BJ
Kim
Myeung Nam
MN