 Porokeratosis
"Porokeratosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A heritable disorder of faulty keratinization characterized by the proliferation of abnormal clones of KERATINOCYTES and lesions showing varying atrophic patches surrounded by an elevated, keratotic border. These keratotic lesions can progress to overt cutaneous neoplasm. Several clinical variants are recognized, including porokeratosis of Mibelli, linear porokeratosis, disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis, palmoplantar porokeratosis, and punctate porokeratosis.
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D017499
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C16.320.850.730 C17.800.428.750 C17.800.827.730
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| Concept/Terms |
Porokeratosis, Palmoplantar- Porokeratosis, Palmoplantar
- Palmoplantar Porokeratosis
- Keratoderma Palmoplantar, Punctate Type 2
- Porokeratosis Plantaris, Palmaris, Et Disseminata
- Porokeratosis Plantaris Palmaris et Disseminata
- Porokeratosis, Palmar, Plantar, And Disseminated 1
- Porokeratosis Palmaris et Plantaris Disseminata
- Type 2 Punctate PPK
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Porokeratosis" by people in Profiles.
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Goddard DS, Rogers M, Frieden IJ, Krol AL, White CR, Jayaraman AG, Robinson-Bostom L, Bruckner AL, Ruben BS. Widespread porokeratotic adnexal ostial nevus: clinical features and proposal of a new name unifying porokeratotic eccrine ostial and dermal duct nevus and porokeratotic eccrine and hair follicle nevus. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2009 Dec; 61(6):1060.e1-14.
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Wallner JS, Fitzpatrick JE, Brice SL. Verrucous porokeratosis of Mibelli on the buttocks mimicking psoriasis. Cutis. 2003 Nov; 72(5):391-3.
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