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From the perspective of personalized medicine, improved phenotyping of rare inflammatory dermatoses may support more precise diagnosis, individualized therapeutic decisions, and non-invasive disease monitoring. This study aimed to characterize facial discoid dermatosis using line-field confocal optical coherence tomography and reflectance confocal microscopy and to discuss its differential diagnosis and therapeutic implications. Methods: We report a case of facial discoid dermatosis in a 35-year-old patient examined with line-field confocal optical coherence tomography and reflectance confocal microscopy. The imaging findings were interpreted in correlation with clinical and histopathological features. A literature review was performed to summarize differential diagnoses, therapeutic perspectives, and the proposed relationship between facial discoid dermatosis and pityriasis rubra pilaris. Results: Non-invasive imaging revealed morphological features consistent with a psoriasiform inflammatory dermatosis and provided additional in vivo information supporting the diagnosis. The literature review showed limited evidence for a direct association between facial discoid dermatosis and pityriasis rubra pilaris, with only isolated reports suggesting possible overlap or progression. Conclusions: Facial discoid dermatosis appears to represent a distinct psoriasiform dermatosis. Line-field confocal optical coherence tomography and reflectance confocal microscopy may contribute to a personalized diagnostic approach by supporting differential diagnosis and potentially guiding individualized monitoring in rare inflammatory facial dermatoses.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jpm16070360","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,1]],"date-time":"2026-07-01T08:19:02Z","timestamp":1782893942000},"page":"360","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Facial Discoid Dermatosis Imaging with Line-Field Confocal Optical Coherence Tomography and Reflectance Confocal Microscopy\u2014A Case Report and Literature Review"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5377-5254","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Joanna","family":"Zygad\u0142o","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Warsaw, Nowogrodzka 59, 02-006 Warsaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7633-4168","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Leszek","family":"Blicharz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Warsaw, Nowogrodzka 59, 02-006 Warsaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6139-7281","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Joanna","family":"Czuwara","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Warsaw, Nowogrodzka 59, 02-006 Warsaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7438-3559","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Joanna","family":"Nowaczyk","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Warsaw, Nowogrodzka 59, 02-006 Warsaw, Poland"},{"name":"Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9091-9181","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Karolina","family":"Makowska","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Warsaw, Nowogrodzka 59, 02-006 Warsaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2744-8353","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ma\u0142gorzata","family":"Olszewska","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Warsaw, Nowogrodzka 59, 02-006 Warsaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8308-1023","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lidia","family":"Rudnicka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Warsaw, Nowogrodzka 59, 02-006 Warsaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"189","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1365-4632.2009.04206.x","article-title":"Facial discoid dermatosis","volume":"49","author":"Ko","year":"2010","journal-title":"Int. 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