FOX-FORDYCE-DISEASE IN 2 PREPUBERTAL GIRLS - HISTOPATHOLOGIC DEMONSTRATION OF ECCRINE SWEAT GLAND INVOLVEMENT

This report presents two prepubertal girls with Fox-Fordyce disease, T he pruritic papules extensively affected the areas where apocrine glan ds are distributed (axillae, periareolar and intermammary zones, pubes , infraumbilical midline), and also extended to the neck and face near the external angle of the eyes in one child, Analyses of several biop sy specimens showed that the main lesion was a spongiotic vesicle cont aining inflammatory cells and keratinocytes affecting the hair infundi bula and acrosyringia, together, with hyperkeratosis of both adnexa, T he cause of the disease remains elusive, but the microscopic findings may explain the good results obtained with keratolytic agents.