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    J Cutan Pathol. 2005 Aug;32(7):506-11.

    Fucosidosis with angiokeratoma. Immunohistochemical & electronmicroscopic study of a new case and literature review.

    Kanitakis J, Allombert C, Doebelin B, Deroo-Berger MC, Grande S, Blanc S, Claudy A.

    Department of Dermatology (Pav. R), Ed. Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France. jean.kanitikas@chu-lyon.fr

    Fucosidosis is a rare lysosomal storage disease due to alpha-L-fucosidase deficiency. It presents clinically with neurological, skeletal, and cutaneous findings, including mainly angiokeratoma corporis diffusum. Electronmicroscopic examination reveals characteristic electron-lucent cytoplasmic vacuolization present in several cell types of the skin and other tissues. We present here a new patient suffering from fucosidosis with angiokeratoma, whose normal and diseased skin was studied by lightmicroscopy and electronmicroscopy. The salient clinicopathological features of this disease are briefly reviewed.

    PMID: 16008696 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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