What is Dowling-Degos disease?

Dowling-Degos disease is a rare genetic disease of the skin that presents in adult life with pigmentation, particularly in the folds of the skin. It is also known as ‘pigmented reticulate anomaly of the flexures’. It is important to distinguish this from acanthosis nigricans, which can be a skin sign of internal diseases.

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