Title
Hailey-Hailey disease. A case report
Other title
[Enfermedad de Hailey-Hailey. Comunicación de un caso]
Date Issued
01 January 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Alegre-Yataco P.
Velasco-Rodríguez M.
Alegre-Giraldo J.
Publisher(s)
Asociation Argentina de Dermatologia
Abstract
Hailey-Hailey disease or familial benign chronic pemphigus, is a very rare genodermatosis, autosomal dominant inheritance, has no sex and race predilection. It is caused by mutations in the ATP2C1 gene, which causes dysfunction calcium channel, key in regulating epidermal differentiation and processing desmosomal proteins involved in cell adhesion, as a result there is a defect in adherence of keratinocytes and acantholysis occurs and generating alterations in the epidermis. It's clinical manifestations are characterized by flaccid, pruritic and painful ampules and vesicles located in intertriginous areas and rarely in mucosas; chronic and recurrent evolution. We report the unusual case of a male patient aged 86, presenting six months ago eroded and painful vesicles on the neck, armpits, groin and oral mucosa; previously treated with corticosteroids, unimproved, whereby lesions are biopsied, being histopathology compatible with Hailey-Hailey disease.
Volume
97
Issue
4
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Dermatología, Enfermedades venéreas Patología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85010639149
Source
Revista Argentina de Dermatologia
ISSN of the container
03252787
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