title: Diagnosis of Lafora's disease in apocrine sweat glands of the axilla.
abstract: A case of Lafora's disease diagnosed by skin biopsy is reported. Lafora's bodies, the hallmark of myoclonal epilepsy, were present in the epithelial cells of the apocrine glands. Therefore, the skin biopsy of the axilla proved to be very useful in the diagnosis of this entity. A striking feature of the case was that Lafora's bodies were only found in apocrine glands, whereas the eccrine glands were free of them.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University Hospital, Pamplona, Spain.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Idoate
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Vazquez
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Soto
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: de Castro
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001050:Apocrine Glands / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D001365:Axilla; D004831:Epilepsies, Myoclonic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D002479:Inclusion Bodies / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008297:Male