Darier Disease, Darier Disease - DermAtlas

Contributor

Debabrata Bandyopadhyay, MD

Diagnosis

Darier disease Darier disease

Body Site

back

Age

30 years

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

confluent

Color

brown

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

symmetric central (centrifugal - trunk predominant) sun exposed areas

Comments

A 30 year old woman developed clusters of warty greasy hyperpigmented papules on seborrheic and sunexposed areas beginning at puberty. Her mother and two of her brothers had a similar eruption. A biopsy showed characteristic changes of keratosis follicularis (Darier disease).

Description

A 30-year-old woman has clusters of dirty, warty, greasy papules on seborrhoeic and sun-exposed areas. Onset of disease at pubery. Her mother and two of her brothers have the same illness.

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12/18/2002 11:00:13

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