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Familial occurrence of axillary papular mucinosis Volume 15, issue 2, March-April 2005

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Dept. of Dermatology Kantonsspital Aarau 501.1 Aarau Switzerland Fax: (+41) 62 28 38 69 52, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland

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.