Piebaldism: rare but all dermatologists have heard this strange term during residency
- Fox-Fordyce disease is also known as apocrine miliaria:
- It appears as papules in apocrine gland bearing areas such as the axillae, the pubic areas and around the areolae.
- It is due to a chronic obstruction of the apocrine glands
- It was described by Dr George Henry Fox (1846-1937), an American dermatologist from New York
- Dr John Addison Fordyce (1858-1926, also from New York described the histopathology of the lesion.
He described many other conditions:- Fordyce’s glands (also known as Fordyce’s lesion, spot or disease) sebaceous glands located in genital area and on the lips / oral mucosa
- Angiokeratoma of Fordyce: dilated blood vessels which appear as blue to red papules in the genital areas
Contributors
Dr Christophe Hsu – dermatologist. Geneva, Switzerland
Source of information: Crissey JT el al. Dermatology and Dermatologists (2002). Parthenon Publishing
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