title: Keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness (KID) syndrome.
abstract: A 21-year-old man presented with a life-long history of diffusely thickened skin with a grainy-to-ridged surface, verrucous perioral plaques with radial fissures, and diffuse palmoplantar keratoderma with a stippled appearance. These skin findings were accompanied by sensorineural hearing loss and keratoconjunctivitis, a clinical triad diagnostic of keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness (KID) syndrome. The patient also had a history of recurrent infections and cysts on the scalp. This report draws attention to inflammatory nodules (representing ruptured folliculitis), cysts, and recurrent infections on the scalp as manifestations of KID syndrome and reviews the increasingly recognized risk of follicular tumors and squamous-cell carcinomas in patients with this conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, New York University, USA.
authors.forename: Mercedes E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Gonzalez
authors.forename: Brook E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Tlougan
authors.forename: Harper N
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Price
authors.forename: Rishi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Hideko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kamino
authors.forename: Julie V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Schaffer
mesh_terms: D003638:Deafness; D006801:Humans; D007057:Ichthyosis / Q000473:pathology; D007634:Keratitis / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D013577:Syndrome; D055815:Young Adult