Dowling-Degos Disease Presenting Primarily with Comedones and Atrophic Scarring.

Dermatopathology (Basel)

Division of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tygerberg Academic Hospital and Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.

Published: June 2019

Dowling-Degos disease (DDD) is a rare genodermatosis primarily presenting with reticulated pigmentation of the flexures. Secondary features include comedones and atrophic scarring. We present a patient with histologically confirmed DDD whose predominant clinical finding was of comedones and scarring, with less prominent pigmentation, thus expanding the clinical spectrum of DDD.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6827546PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000497177DOI Listing

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