Dowling-Degos Disease Presenting Primarily with Comedones and Atrophic Scarring

Bianca M Tod; Ilana Steenkamp; Henry Francois Jordaan; Willem I Visser

doi:10.1159/000497177

Dowling-Degos Disease Presenting Primarily with Comedones and Atrophic Scarring

Dermatopathology (Basel). 2019 Jun 26;6(2):153-156. doi: 10.1159/000497177. eCollection 2019 Apr-Jun.

Authors

Bianca M Tod¹, Ilana Steenkamp², Henry Francois Jordaan¹, Willem I Visser¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tygerberg Academic Hospital and Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Division of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Abstract

Dowling-Degos disease (DDD) is a rare genodermatosis primarily presenting with reticulated pigmentation of the flexures. Secondary features include comedones and atrophic scarring. We present a patient with histologically confirmed DDD whose predominant clinical finding was of comedones and scarring, with less prominent pigmentation, thus expanding the clinical spectrum of DDD.

Keywords: Atrophic scarring; Comedones; Reticulated pigmentary disorders.

Publication types

Case Reports