Subcorneal Pustular Dermatosis: A Case Report of a Patient with Diffuse Scleroderma

Document Type : CASE REPORT

Authors
Fatemeh Mokhtari
Nazila Poostiyan
Department of Dermatology, Skin Diseases and Leishmaniasis Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Abstract
Subcorneal pustular dermatosis (SPD) or Sneddon-Wilkinson disease is a rare, benign, chronic, sterile pustular eruption which is associated with various systemic diseases including immunoglobinopathies, neoplasms, and autoimmune disorders. This paper reports a case of SPD in a patient with diffuse scleroderma in a 37-year-old woman. The hypothesis that immune dysregulation may play a role in the pathogenesis of SPD was supposed by the coexistence of diffuse scleroderma and SPD in our patient.

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Advanced Biomedical Research
Volume 2018, May
May 2018
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