Comedonal, cornifying and hypertrophic Darier's disease in the same patient: A Darier combination

Abstract

Our 42-year-old patient had comedonal Darier's disease (DD) on the face, comedonal cornifying DD on the upper back, and hypertrophic DD on both legs. Biopsies taken from face, upper back and medial sides of the legs were found to be compatible with these clinical subtypes. The comedonal type was in the classical place, but the hypertrophic and cornifying types were not in the usual sites. In addition to the classic histopathology of DD, we noted multiple, warty dyskeratoma-like structures in the comedonal type, marked compact hyperkeratosis in the cornifying type, and marked papillomatosis in the hypertrophic type.