Delayed manifestation of Costa's acrokeratoelastosis

Haneke, E.; Schwarzenbach, I.; Hornstein, O.P.

Zeitschrift für Hautkrankheiten 52(5): 170-172

1977


ISSN/ISBN: 0301-0481
PMID: 139769
Document Number: 110504
Acrokeratoelastoidosis, first described in 1952 bei O.G. Costa, belongs to the group of diffuse palmoplantar keratoses without associated symptoms. Probably it is an autosomal dominant trait. We observed a 49 year old female who has noticed her typical skin lesions for 2 years. The most marked histological features are proliferative hyperkeratosis, an almost complete lack of the fine subepithelial elastic fibre network and a marked rarefication of the coarse elastic fibres in the dermis.

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