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Familial occurrence of axillary papular mucinosis
European Journal of Dermatology. Volume 15, Number 2, 70-2, March-April 2005, Genes and skin
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Author(s) : E Paul Scheidegger, Peter Itin, Werner Kempf
Summary : Primary cutaneous mucinosis encompasses a wide range of different skin conditions with circumscribed, follicular or diffuse manifestation. For the first time, to our knowledge, we report on the occurrence of so-called “atypical” localized papular mucinosis in the axillary pits of a mother and her (identical) twin daughters presenting as asymptomatic soft minuscule papules. This unique observation allows us to define an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern with a high level of penetrance for this rare skin disease.
Keywords : arm pits, axillary, genetics, thyreoiditis, inheritance, lichen myxoedematosus, papular mucinosis

Familial occurrence of axillary papular mucinosis