Pachyonychia congenita: A rare genodermatosis

• Main Authors: Puneet Agarwal (Author), Mahendra K Chhaperwal (Author), Apurva Singh (Author), Arvind Verma (Author), Manisha Nijhawan (Author), Kishore Singh (Author), Dinesh Mathur (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Pachyonychia congenita (PC) is a rare genodermatosis with only 450 cases reported since 1906. It is of two types, type I due to mutation in genes 6a and 16, and 6b and 17 in type II with an autosomal dominant inheritance in both types. A 22 yr old female patient presented in our OPD with hypertrophy...