Galli-Galli disease: An unrecognized entity or an acantholytic variant of Dowling-Degos disease?

Galli-Galli disease is an inherited disease characterized by slowly progres sive and disfiguring reticulate hyperpigmentation of the flexures, clinical ly and histopathologically diagnostic lot. Dowling-Degos disease, but also associated with suprabasal, nondyskeratotic acantholysis. A few patients ex hibiting these features have been described, mainly in the non-English-lang uage literature, Which Suggests that Galli-Galli disease is not an entity o f its own, as originally thought, but is,in acantholytic variant of Dowling -Degos disease. Ve report a typical case of Galli-Galli disease, which supp orts this concept.