Sir, Mucin is a jelly-like amorphous mixture of glycosaminoglycans, mainly hyaluronic acid and dermatin sulphate bound to small amounts of chondroitin sulphate and heparin sulphate. Mucinous infiltration of the skin occurs in disorders in which mucin accumulates either diffusely or focally. The disorders either affect the skin only or are related to systemic disease. Follicular mucinosis can be...

Papular mucinosis or lichen myxedematosus is an idiopathic disorder characterized by papules, nodules or plaques caused by mucin deposition in the dermis, in the absence of thyroid disease. The present report describes an atypical case with exuberant lesions in the form of plaques, associated with subclinical hypothyroidism. In cutaneous mucinosis, there is an abnormal quantity of mucin in the ...

OBJECTIVE Follicular mucinosis is a disease characterized by follicular degeneration and mucin accumulation. It can be seen in mycosis fungoides, although idiopathic or forms associated with other diseases are also known. Follicular mycosis fungoides is a type of mycosis fungoides with different clinicopathological and prognostic features. MATERIAL AND METHOD Seven cases with follicular cente...

Follicular mucinosis is defined as the accumulation of mucin in the follicular epithelium and sebaceous glands.1 It can present in isolation with an unknown etiology2 or in association with several conditions, including various types of hematologic malignancy. We report the case of an 8-year-old girl with no medical history of interest who was referred for a lesion on the dorsum of the nose tha...

Follicular mucinosis Systemic Lupus erythematosus Hair loss Prof. Bhushan Kumar, Head, Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, PGIMER, Chandigarh 160 012 (India) A 37-year-old man presented with loss of hair on asymptomatic erythematous boggy plaques over the scalp, face, trunk and limbs of 8 months duration. A provisional diagnosis of follicular mucinosis was made. It was confirm...

Papulonodular mucinosis (PNM) is a rare variant of lupus erythematosus (LE) eruptions, and PNM is characterized histologically by diffuse dermal mucin without any typical epidermal inflammatory changes. We herein describe a case of papular mucinosis that was characterized by several erythematous papules on the lower back of a 32-year-old man with systemic LE. It is interesting that he didn't di...

INTRODUCTION Cutaneous focal mucinosis is a heterogeneous disorder characterized by abnormal deposition of mucin within the skin. It can be primary (idiopathic) or secondary (associated with a neoplasm or inflammation). Mucin is an amorphous, gelatinous substance important for the homeostasis of ground substance and joint fluid. It consists of hyaluronic acid and is usually produced by fibrobla...

Here, we present the case of a 62-year-old patient presenting with a three-month history of asymptomatic, flesh-colored, infiltrated plaques on the fronto-occipital scalp (Figure 1). The patient had a history of dyslipidemia and hypertension but reported no changes in medication in the last two years. Serial histopathological examination of the scalp plaques (over a two-year follow-up period) s...