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 will chart this finding as:

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In pregnancy, skin changes can include striae, linea nigra (a brownish-black line down the midline), chloasma which is an irregular brown patch of hyperpigmentation on the face, and vascular spiders.Keratoses are raised, thickened areas of pigmentation that look crusted, scaly, and warty.Xerosis is dry skin.Acrochordons, or skin tags, occur more often in the aging adult.

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