Open AccessType 2 segmental darier's disease in a twelve-year old Nigerian male - A case report
Author(s) -
Salim Yusuf,
Ashfaque Mohammed,
Andrew Uloko
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
nigerian journal of medicine/the nigerian journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2667-0526
pISSN - 1115-2613
DOI - 10.4314/njm.v18i4.51254
Subject(s) - darier's disease , disease , medicine , dermatology , darier disease , clinical phenotype , nail (fastener) , pathology , phenotype , biology , genetics , materials science , metallurgy , gene
Darier's disease is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized clinically by presence of keratotic papules in a seborrheic distribution, nail involvement and mucosal lesions. There are several clinical variants of Darier's disease, but few cases of segmental Darier's disease have been described in the literature. We describe a 12-year-old boy with type 2 mosaic phenotype. This unique clinical variant of Darier's disease has been described very rarely.