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Date
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.doi
10.25259/IJDVL_329_20
dc.identifier.other
dc.description.volume
88
dc.description.issue
5
SEP-OCT
SEP-OCT
Publisher
SCIENTIFIC SCHOLAR LLC
DOI
10.25259/IJDVL_329_20
Abstract
A 38-year-old man presented with a history of intractable itchy eruption on the buttocks, present for the last 6 years. The lesions had gradually spread over time and did not respond to several topical steroids. Dermatological examination revealed a butterfly-shaped erythematous verrucous plaque, involving both buttocks and gluteal cleft {[}Figure 1], and peripheral guttate red-brown discrete papules {[}Figure 2]. Histologic examination of a punch biopsy specimen displayed orthokeratosis, follicular plugging, numerous oblique columns of parakeratosis called cornoid lamellae, extending at about 45 degrees from the surface of
