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TITLE:

FOX-FORDYCE DISEASE ON AXILLA TREATED SUCCESSFULLY WITH 2940-NM ERBIUM LASER

AUTHORS:

Mojahed Otayf1, Abdulrahman Albasseet, Saad Altalhab, Emad Bahashwan, Ahmed Al-Issa

ABSTRACT:

Fox–Fordyce disease (FFD) is a rare chronic pruritic inflammatory disorder that affect apocrine glands. It affects axillae, anogenital, and periareolar regions in young female. Treatment of this condition remains difficult and unsatisfactory. In this report, a 27-years-old female present with multiple follicular, skin-colored papules, measuring around 1-2 mm in diameter on both axillae. She was diagnosed with FFD and showed a good response to treatment with multiple sessions of 2940-nm Erbium laser, which to the best of our knowledge had not been described before. Keywords: Axilla, Erbium, Fox, Fordyce, Laser.

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