RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Juvenile plantar dermatosis: the “wet and dry foot syndrome”
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 145
OP 149
VO 50
IS 2
A1 Willard D. Steck
YR 1983
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/50/2/145.abstract
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.