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Prurigo pigmentosa (PP), or Nagashima’s disease, is considered a rare inflammatory dermatosis of unknown etiology characterized by recurrent, pruritic erythematous papules and gross reticulate hyperpigmentation. PP was described in 1971 by Nagashima et al. as dermatitis that mostly affected Japanese women, and since then it has been a strong belief that Japan was an endemic region for this disease. Indeed reports of PP are rare, in particular in western countries. In total, approximately 130 scientific reports on PP have been published since the first mention. As far as this dermatitis is extremely rare, it can be easily underdiagnosed because of lack of awareness among dermatologists in the western part of the world. For the last decade, the number of cases and reports has been growing, and it seems obvious that geography of PP is definitely wider than it was previously thought. Cases of PP were reported from Taiwan, South Korea, India, Mid East, China, United States, and the UK. In this study, we represent the first case of PP that was diagnosed in Ukraine.