A heritable disorder of faulty keratinization characterized by the proliferation of abnormal clones of KERATINOCYTES and lesions showing varying atrophic patches surrounded by an elevated, keratotic border. These keratotic lesions can progress to overt cutaneous neoplasm. Several clinical variants are recognized, including porokeratosis of Mibelli, linear porokeratosis, disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis, palmoplantar porokeratosis, and punctate porokeratosis.

Descriptor ID	D017499
MeSH Number(s)	C16.320.850.730 C17.800.428.750 C17.800.827.730
Concept/Terms	Porokeratosis Porokeratosis Porokeratosis, Disseminated Superficial Actinic Porokeratosis, Disseminated Superficial Actinic Disseminated Superficial Actinic Porokeratosis Porokeratosis, Palmoplantar Porokeratosis, Palmoplantar Palmoplantar Porokeratosis Keratoderma Palmoplantar, Punctate Type 2 Porokeratosis Plantaris, Palmaris, Et Disseminata Porokeratosis Plantaris Palmaris et Disseminata Porokeratosis, Palmar, Plantar, And Disseminated 1 Porokeratosis Palmaris et Plantaris Disseminata Type 2 Punctate PPK Porokeratosis, Linear Porokeratosis, Linear Linear Porokeratosis Porokeratosis, Mibelli Porokeratosis, Mibelli Mibelli Porokeratosis Porokeratosis of Mibelli Porokeratosis, Punctate Porokeratosis, Punctate Punctate Porokeratosis Porokeratosis, Disseminated Superficial Actinic 2 Porokeratosis, Disseminated Superficial Actinic 2 Porokeratosis, Disseminated Superficial Actinic, 2

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