Steatocystoma multiplex suppurativum: treatment with isotretinoin.
A patient with steatocystoma multiplex with multiple ruptured draining cysts and abscesses was treated with a twenty-week course of isotretinoin. Abscesses involuted and inflamed cysts shrank. The remission persisted for ten weeks after discontinuing therapy; subsequently cysts and abscesses occurred in multiple sites.
D000328:Adult; D004814:Epidermal Cyst / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D015474:Isotretinoin; D008297:Male; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D014212:Tretinoin / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D014212:Tretinoin; D015474:Isotretinoin