Pityriasis rubra pilaris in black South Africans

Eighteen black South African patients with pityriasis rubra pilaris were pr ospectively studied, nine adults and nine children: patients with the class ical types (namely I and III) constituted 75% of the group. Follicular invo lvement was very prominent, especially in the children with type III, but o therwise the clinical and histological findings did not differ from those r eported in white patients. This is the first series of black African patien ts with this condition to be reported.