Mutilating acral keratoderma.
A 15-year-old male, born of non-consanguineous marriage started developing thickening of skin of sole of the both feet at the age of 7 which progressed to involve whole of both feet by 11th year. Patient later developed painful autoamputation of little toes of both feet due to pseudoainhum. Involvement of the palms was limited to a localised area over palmar aspect of right middle finger and was non-progressive. No other family member was affected. This may represent a variant of Vohwinkel's syndrome or the rarer form of acral keratoderma.
Department of Dermatology, Madras Medical College and Government General Hospital, Madras, India.
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Krishnan
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Yesudian
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Jayaraman
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Janaki
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Yesudian