title: Degenerative collagenous plaque of the hand (linear keratoelastoidosis of the hands). A variant of acrokeratoelastosis.
abstract: Clinical and histological features of three examples of degenerative collagenous plaques of the hands in Indian housewives have been described in detail in order to focus attention on a hitherto uncommon entity. Household trauma has been incriminated as the precipitating or a triggering factor in these cases.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006229:Hand Dermatoses / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology*