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Naxos disease

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A nonepidermolytic palmoplantar keratoderma that is characterized by palmoplantar keratoderma, woolly hair and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy and that has_material_basis_in homozygous mutation in the plakoglobin gene on chromosome 17q21.

Signs and symptoms

  • Woolly hair
  • Fragile skin
  • Acantholysis
  • Subungual hyperkeratosis
  • Diffuse palmoplantar hyperkeratosis
  • Epidermal acanthosis
  • Right ventricular cardiomyopathy
  • Abnormal blistering of the skin
  • Palmoplantar keratoderma
  • Hyperkeratosis