Rediscovering Perifollicular Elastolysis: A Hitherto Undocumented Entity in India

Perifollicular elastolysis, also known as papular acne scars is a common but taken for granted entity. It appears as asymptomatic whitish yellow papules on the trunk and proximal arms. Histologically there is loss of elastin around the pilosebaceous follicles. The lesions are the result of a scarrin...

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Autores principales: Verma, Shyam B, Nandkumar, Gopinath
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26677277
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.169135
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description Perifollicular elastolysis, also known as papular acne scars is a common but taken for granted entity. It appears as asymptomatic whitish yellow papules on the trunk and proximal arms. Histologically there is loss of elastin around the pilosebaceous follicles. The lesions are the result of a scarring process that appear as papules and are often mistaken for papules of acne and are treated. A knowledge of this entity which has never been described before in India is being reiterated.
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spelling pubmed-46812022015-12-16 Rediscovering Perifollicular Elastolysis: A Hitherto Undocumented Entity in India Verma, Shyam B Nandkumar, Gopinath Indian J Dermatol Case Report Perifollicular elastolysis, also known as papular acne scars is a common but taken for granted entity. It appears as asymptomatic whitish yellow papules on the trunk and proximal arms. Histologically there is loss of elastin around the pilosebaceous follicles. The lesions are the result of a scarring process that appear as papules and are often mistaken for papules of acne and are treated. A knowledge of this entity which has never been described before in India is being reiterated. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4681202/ /pubmed/26677277 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.169135 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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