This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Patrick Yesudian, FRCP
10 Ritherdon Ave Vepery, Madras 7, India 600 007

Arch Dermatol. 1985;121(12):1483.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

To the Editor.—

In the May 1985 issue of the ARCHIVES, Kellet and Macdonald¹ described a 21-year-old woman with classic confluent and reticulate papillomatosis (CRP) of nine years' duration who responded rapidly to 2% miconazole cream applied topically. They had quoted the case report by Bruynzeel-Koomen and de Wit² of a similarly afflicted patient who responded to treatment with oral etretinate.

In 1973, my colleagues and I³ reported three cases of CRP; two of the patients responded to topical selenium sulfide, and one responded to parenteral vitamin A therapy alone. On the basis of this study, we proposed that CRP is an abnormal host response to Malassezia furfur. The two popular views about the pathogenesis of CRP are those of Miescher,⁴ who proposed a keratinization disorder as the basic defect, and Roberts and Lachapelle,⁵ who suggested an abnormal host response to Pityrosporon orbiculare. Based on . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?