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Kathryn L Dortzbach1, John T Seykora, Victoria P Werth
1Department of Dermatology, The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA.
Abstract:
Darier's disease is an autosomal dominant disease that typically arises during the first or second decades of life. It involves the abnormal keratinization of the epidermis, mucosa, and nails. We describe a 74-year-old man with metastatic carcinoma in whom fibroproliferative disease and an acquired variant of Darier's disease developed, both of which may have been paraneoplastic processes.
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