In response to the rapid spread of COVID‐19 at the start of the pandemic, governments introduced severe measures of home confinement and isolation of the population in an effort to prevent their health systems from collapsing. On March 14, with more than 4000 confirmed cases
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, Spain began its nationwide lockdown which has extended for almost three months
Hypertrophic and acneiform forms are very rare variants of discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE), which can suppose a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. We present a South American woman with facial disfiguring lesions of 7 years of evolution with clinical and histopathological characteristic of both hypertrophic and acneiform DLE. No criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus were present in the patient. To the best of our knowledge, no patients with concomitant hypertrophic and acneiform DLE have been previously reported in the literature.
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