Caso dermatológico: Doença de Fox-Fordyce

• Author(s): Carvalho, S. ; Vilaça, S. ; Selores, M.
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.16/1492
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Centro Hospitalar do Porto
• Subject(s): Fox-Fordyce disease; skin rash; apocrine glands
• Document Type: Article
• Language: Portuguese

Description

The Fox-Fordyce disease represents an infrequent chronic pruritic skin rash of unknown etiology caused by obstruction of apocrine glands. Clinically it is characterized by multiple skin color and / or erythematous perifollicular papules in areas rich of apocrine glands (armpits, genital area, areolas and infra-mammary fold). Retinoids, antibiotics and topical immunomodulators have been used with varying results. We describe a case of a 16-year-old girl with Fox-Fordyce disease.