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Reactive perforating collagenosis
Author(s) -
NAIR B. K. H.,
SAROJINI P. A.,
BASHEER A. M.,
NAIR C. H. K.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1974.tb13077.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dermatology , folliculitis , pathology , disease
SUMMARY Five cases of reactive perforating collagenosis (RPC) are reported. Four of these cases were in a father and his three children. This is the first reported instance of RPC occurring in more than one generation. The clinical and histological features of the disease are described and compared with other disorders showing perforating skin lesions, such as Kyrle's disease, perforating folliculitis and elastosis perforans serpiginosa. Evidence is presented to show that RPC is a genetically determined disorder with an inherited predisposition to an unusual skin reaction to superficial trauma.