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Fox-Fordyce Disease: Dermoscopic Perspective
- Source :
- Skin Appendage Disord
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- S. Karger AG, 2020.
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Abstract
- Fox-Fordyce disease (FFD) is a rare chronic skin disease of the apocrine unit. It presents chiefly in postpubertal females as grouped, monomorphic, skin-colored follicular papules associated with intense pruritus commonly in axillae but may involve pubic, perineal, areolar, and umbilical areas [An Bras Dermatol. 2018;93(1):161–2]. Diagnosis is mostly clinical as histological features are often nonspecific and variable. However, the lesions at times may be mistaken for irritant contact dermatitis, lichen nitidus, syringoma, etc. [J Dermatol. 2009;36(9):485–90]. Dermoscopy is being increasingly utilized in pigmentary and inflammatory skin disorders. In this communication, we describe the dermoscopic features in FFD, which shows typical light brown to dark brown folliculocentric structureless areas with loss of dermatoglyphics. Some of the lesions also show hyperkeratotic follicular plugging.
- Subjects :
- Fox–Fordyce disease
medicine.medical_specialty
integumentary system
business.industry
Apocrine
Dermatology
medicine.disease
Axilla
Lichen nitidus
medicine.anatomical_structure
Syringoma
Novel Insights from Clinical Practice
medicine
Irritant contact dermatitis
Chronic skin disease
Dermatoglyphics
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Skin Appendage Disord
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....236557db4b9fa40a984d0f23aa15d53e