Open AccessZinc-responsive acral hyperkeratotic dermatosis-A novel entity or a subset of some well-known dermatosis?
Author(s) -
Alakendu Ghosh,
Ishad Aggarwal,
Abhishek De,
Ayan Samanta,
Gobinda Chatterjee,
Sanchaita Bala,
Projna Biswas,
Nidhi Chowdhary
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of dermatology/indian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1998-3611
pISSN - 0019-5154
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5154.152507
Subject(s) - medicine , acanthosis , histopathology , dermatology , parakeratosis , methotrexate , gastroenterology , hyperkeratosis , pathology
We are reporting a series of interesting cases, which presented to us with psoriasiform lesions distributed over the acral regions of the body. The cases are unusual because they were resistant to conventional treatment modalities like topical corticosteroids, tacrolimus and oral methotrexate but showed significant improvement on oral zinc therapy.