Three Cases of Darier's Disease Occuring in One Family.
- Author:
Do Young CHOI
;
Sang Lip CHUNG
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
Edible Grain;
Darier Disease*;
Epidermis;
Female;
Humans;
Korea;
Middle Aged;
Mothers;
Nuclear Family;
Palate
- From:Korean Journal of Dermatology
1978;16(4):337-341
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
Darier's disease is a congenital dyskeratosis and is as an autosomal dominant reait but a case with a family history is relatively rare and only 2 such cases have been reported in Korea. We present typical Darier's disease occuring in a mother and her 2 daughters. A 45 year-old female has shown muitiple, confluent, dirty verrucous keratotic papules on the seborrheic area and whitish papules on the sotf palate since the age of 7 year-ole. Histologically there, are corps ronds, grains and suprabssal lacunae in the epidermis.