50 - Acantholytic Disorders of the Skin Flashcards
Mode of inheritance: Darier disease
Autosomal dominant
Darier disease also known as
Darier-White disease
Keratosis follicularis
Age of onset
First to second decade
Discrete, greasy, yellowish-brown keratotic papules on the seborrheic areas
“Intolerable stench”
Darier disease
Nail fragility, painful longitudinal splits, or distinctive red and white longitudinal bands terminating in V-shaped nicks are frequent and highly suggestive of
Darier disease
Darier disease has been reported in association with
Neuropsychiatric disease
Exacerbates Darier disease, possibly by suppressing levels of epidermal SERCA2
May be prescribed for bipolar disorder
Lithium
Gene mutation: Darier disease
ATP2A2
ATP2A2 encodes
Sarco- and endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ adenosine triphosphate isoform 2 (SERCA2)
Major SERCA2 isoform detected in the human epidermis
SERCA2b
Normal Ca2+ gradient in the epidermis
Increasing epidermal Ca2+ gradient from the basal to superficial layers
Ca2+ gradient in the epidermis of patients with Darier disease
Level of Ca2+ is reduced in basal cells from both affected and unaffected skin
Earliest ultrastructural change in Darier disease
Breakdown of desmosomes with aggregation of keratin filaments around the cell nucleus
Histopathology shows downgrowths of narrow cords of keratinocytes, suprabasal acantholysis with suprabasal clefts, dyskerstosis and hyperkeratosis
Corps ronds and grains
Darier disease
Rounded eosinophilic dyskeratotic cells in the epidermis
Corps ronds
Flattened parakeratotic cells in the cornified layer
Grains
Pregnancy is contraindicated for _____ after stopping treatment with acitretin and for _____ after stopping isotretinoin or alitretinoin
2 years
1 month
Acrokeratosis verruciformis is also known as
Acral Darier disease
Acrokeratosis verruciformis of Hopf
Mode of inheritance: acrokeratosis verruciformis of Hopf
Autosomal dominant
Histopathology shows hyperkeratosis, hypergranulosis, and acanthosis with papillomatosis
“Church spires”
Epidermis is neither dyskeratotic nor acantholytic
Acrokeratosis verruciformis
Hailey-Hailey disease is also known as
Familial benign chronic pemphigus
HHD age on onset
Third to form decade
Weeping erosions, vesicopustules, expanding annular plaques with peripheral scaly borders, and vegetating plaques with fissures (rhagades)
Predominantly at sites of friction
HHD