Fox-Fordyce Disease - DermAtlas - Dermatology Image Atlas

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Charles Crutchfield, III, MD

Diagnosis

Fox-Fordyce disease

Body Site

breast axilla (armpit) genital

Age

18 years

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

grouped, clustered

Color

brown

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

symmetric

Comments

This 18-year-old woman developed pruritic papules on her breasts, axillae, and genitalia. The progressive eruption began a year earlier. These findings were typicval of Fox-Fordyce disease is also know as apocrine miliaria due the histologic finding of obstruction of the apocrine duct in these areas.

Description

symmetric hyperpigmented papules with intervening hyperpigmentation

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7/23/2003 12:55:51

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