Abstract
A 25-year-old woman with nephrotic syndrome had been on corticosteroids for 8 months. She complained of striae atrophicae associated with transudate in the stroma on the wall of the lower abdomen. It is assumed that this striae are produced by a dysfunction of dermal fibroblasts following oral corticosteroid plus an accumulation of transudate after the breakage of collagen and elastic fibers by mechanical stress.
