PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Willard D. Steck
TI  - Juvenile plantar dermatosis: the “wet and dry foot syndrome”
DP  - 1983 Jun 20
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 145--149
VI  - 50
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/50/2/145.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/50/2/145.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1983 Jun 20; 50
AB  - Juvenile plantar dermatosis is a distinctive symmetrical fissuring dermatosis that affects the weight-bearing surfaces of the forefeet in prepubertal children. Most patients are hyperhidrotic and some are atopic; none has fungal disease or relevant contact allergy. The thick stratum corneum of the affected areas cracks as a result of being alternately too wet and too dry. Cure can be effected by preventing rapid drying of the skin.