Keratosis Follicularis, Darier Disease - DermAtlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

keratosis follicularis Darier disease

Body Site

chest

Age

16 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

discrete grouped, clustered

Color

red

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

symmetric central (centrifugal - trunk predominant)

Comments

This healthy adolescent girl complained of a mildly pruritic skin eruption on her neck and upper chest. Her mother and aunt had similar lesions. The eruption worsened in hot weather and improved with antibiotics but did not clear.

Description

uniform scaly crusted 2-3 mm red papules

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11/12/2006 15:06:17

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