A 35-year-old pregnant woman comes to the clinic for a monthly appointment. During the assessment, the nurse notices that she has a brown patch of hyperpigmentation on her face. The nurse continues the skin assessment. What other finding should the nurse expect?

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In pregnancy, skin changes can include striae, linea nigra (a brownish-black line down the midline), chloasma (brown patches of hyperpigmentation), and vascular spiders. Xerosis is dry skin and keratoses are raised, thickened areas of pigmentation that look crusted, scaly, and warty; neither of which are common in pregnancy. Acrochordons are skin tags, and these often occur in the aging adult.

A 35-Year-Old Pregnant Woman Comes to the Clinic for a Monthly