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METABOLIC
Acrodermatitis enteropathica or acquired zinc deficiency –
linear bullae in palmar creases 
Rook p.2670, 1998, Sixth Edition
Acromegaly – cutis verticis gyratum, linear furrowing of facial
lines 
Ghatan p.165, 2002, Second Edition
Beau’s lines 
Rook p.2828, 1998, Sixth Edition
Calcinosis cutis – iatrogenic metastatic calcinosis cutis 
Ped
Derm 20:225–228, 2003; plate-like calcinosis cutis BJD
150:753–756, 2004
Cholinergic dermatographism – red line with punctate wheals
BJD 115:371–177, 1986
Cushing’s disease – striae
Diabetes mellitus – diabetic dermopathy; sometimes linear
atrophic brown scars 
Rook p.2674, 1998, Sixth Edition;
Cutis 3:955–958, 1967
Diagonal ear lobe crease
Cutis 23:328–331, 1979;
NEJM 289:327–328, 1973
Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum – linear array Koebnerizing
around a scar 
Cutis 67:158–160, 2001
LINEAR LESIONS
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Obesity – striae
Panhypopituitarism – fine wrinkling around eyes and mouth
Ghatan p.165, 2002, Second Edition
Porphyrias – erythropoietic porphyria – linear and pitted
scars 
Eur J Pediatr 159:719–725, 2000; J Inherit Metab
Dis 20:258–269, 1997; BJD 131:751–766, 1994; Curr Probl
Dermatol 20:123–134, 1991; Am J Med 60:8–22, 1976;
hereditary coproporphyria; acute intermittent porphyria – linear
abdominal scars
Pregnancy – hyperpigmentation of linea nigra 
Rook p.1780,
1998, Sixth Edition; pigmentary demarcation lines of pregnancy
JAAD 11:438–440, 1984
Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy – lesions
localized in abdominal striae 
JAAD 39:933–939, 1998; JAAD
10:473–480, 1984; Clin Exp Dermatol 7:65–73, 1982; JAMA
241:1696–1699, 1979
Verruciform xanthoma, disseminated 
BJD 151:717–719, 2004
Xanthomas – eruptive xanthomas (koebnerized) 
J Dermatol
19:48–50, 1992; JAAD 19:95–111, 1988; plane xanthomas