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Int J Dermatol
December 2024
Department of Dermatology, The Affiliated Chengdu 363 Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet
June 2023
Department of Dermatology, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Int J Clin Exp Pathol
February 2022
Dermatology Division, Department of Anatomical Pathology, Pathlab 829 Cameron Road, Tauranga 3112, New Zealand.
Porokeratosis is a disorder of keratinization with many clinical variants. The histological hallmark feature of porokeratosis is a cornoid lamella. Other accompanying features include lichenoid inflammation, atrophy towards the centre of the lesion, dermal cytoid bodies, and adjacent lichenoid changes.
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May 2022
Talwar Skin Centre, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Porokeratosis is a keratinization disorder with unclear etiopathogenesis, varied clinical presentation and characteristic histopathology, and is usually unresponsive to current therapeutic options. Until now, it was considered to be a clonal disorder with immunity, ultra violet radiation and other factors playing important roles in etiopathogenesis. It is now known that abnormalities in the mevalonate pathway are responsible for this clonal keratinization abnormality.
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