title: Facial follicular porokeratosis: a case report.
abstract: Porokeratosis is a disorder of keratinization, characterized clinically by a peripheral keratotic ridge and histologically by the cornoid lamella. We describe a patient with follicular porokeratosis with a distinctive clinical presentation. We believe that follicular porokeratosis is a unique histopathologic variant of porokeratosis, with cornoid lamellae centered in follicular infundibula. Further, this is the only report of follicular porokeratosis involving the face exclusively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Nadia S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Lisa M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Gruson
authors.forename: Hideko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kamino
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005145:Face / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017499:Porokeratosis / Q000473:pathology*