Papular mucinosis: A report of two cases

Address for Correspondence/Yazışma Adresi: Selami Aykut Temiz MD, Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Faculty of Medicine, Department of Dermatology, Konya, Turkey Phone: +90 535 843 00 68 E-mail: aykutmd42@gmail.com Received/Geliş Tarihi: 08.01.2018 Accepted/Kabul Tarihi: 20.06.2018 ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4878-0045 Papular mucinosis (PM) (lichen myxoedematosus) is a unique, chronic idiopathic disease characterized by lichenoid papules or nodules due to dermal mucin deposition and a variable degree of fibrosis. PM is a quite rare disease of unknown etiology, with fewer than one hundred and fifty cases reported. In this paper, we present two cases of PM with no associated monoclonal gammopathy in two male patients aged 75 and 38 years, for its rare occurrence in the literature.

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  2018

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  Turkderm

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  2018-12-21

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.4274/TURKDERM.57689
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