Familial acne fulminans
- 1 September 1992
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
- Vol. 17 (5) , 351
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2230.1992.tb00230.x
Abstract
We report a patient of acne fulminans with arthralgia whose sister presented with the same disease at an identical age 10 years earlier. The two affected siblings in our family also had identical HLA phenotypes which further supported the role of genetic susceptibility in acne fulminans.Keywords
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