Minocycline skin pigmentation

Minocycline is frequently used in the treatment of chronic facial dermatoses. Increased usage has resulted in local skin pigmentation, particularly at sites of previous tissue trauma that is unrelated to the photosensitization phenomenon characteristic of this class of drug. This effect does not appear to be dose dependent and usually resolves in months to years following drug discontinuation. [Pg.546]

Minocycline can also cause skin pigmentation and it is not clear in this last case what the interaction of amiodarone with minocycline was. [Pg.161]

Shum DT, Smout MS, Pace WE, Headington JT. Unusual skin pigmentation from long-term methacycUne and minocycline therapy. Arch Dermatol 1986 122(1) 17-18. [Pg.3341]

Skin Skin pigmentation due to minocycline has been reviewed [143 ]. There are three... [Pg.500]

Geria AN, Tajirian AL, Kihiczak G, Schwartz RA. Minocycline-induced skin pigmentation an update. Acta Dermato-venerol Croat 2009 17(2) 123-6. [Pg.508]

A 70-year-old man developed grey-blue pigmentation on sun-exposed areas of his skin after taking amiodarone for 10 years and minocycline for 4 years (197). [Pg.161]

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