Focal epithelial hyperplasia (Heck disease) in a black child.
We describe a 3-year-old African male child with focal epithelial hyperplasia (Heck disease). The clinical diagnosis was confirmed histologically and by the finding of human papillomavirus type 32.
Binder
Barbara
B
Department of Dermatology, University Graz, Graz, Austria. barbara.binder@klinikum-graz.at
Wieland
Ulrike
U
Smolle
Josef
J
D044383:Black People; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017573:Focal Epithelial Hyperplasia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000821:virology; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D027383:Papillomaviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification