title: Distal pachydermodactyly.
abstract: An 80-year-old white woman had a 6-year history of enlarging, intradermal plaques on the distal, volar, and lateral surfaces of the fingers. A biopsy specimen showed whorled, densely aggregated bundles of coarsely thickened collagen within a sparsely cellular papillary and reticular dermis. The fibrosis entrapped eccrine sweat coils and focally extended into the subcutis. This case represents an unusual, predominantly acral form of acquired, progressive, cutaneous fibrosis, which we propose to call distal pachydermodactyly.
authors.affiliation: Division of Dermatology, University of California, San Diego, USA.
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Tompkins
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: McNutt
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Shea
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001706:Biopsy; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004550:Elbow / Q000473:pathology; D004817:Epidermis / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000473:pathology; D006229:Hand Dermatoses / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans