Darier Disease, Keratosis Follicularis, Grover Disease - DermAtlas

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Margaret Moresi, MD

Diagnosis

Darier disease keratosis follicularis Grover Disease

Body Site

back chest

Age

21 years

Pigmentation

medium

Organization

confluent follicular grouped, clustered

Color

yellow brown red

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

symmetric intertrigenous (creases)

Comments

The characteristic findings in Darier disease includes two types of dyskeratotic cells - corps ronds and grains. This condition should be distinguished clinically from Grover disease (which has a Darier's subtype) and warty dyskeratoma (which is usually a solitary lesion).

Description

The epidermis is acanthotic and surmounted by parakeratotic scale. There is an intraepidermal cleft in a suprabasal location. Dyskeratotic cells are seen within the epidermis.

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6/14/2002 11:52:58

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