Pityriasis rubra pilaris and celiac sprue with malabsorption.

摘要: A case is reported herein of a young man with pityriasis rubra pilaris, disease unknown cause, and malabsorption due to celiac bowel disease. The patient responded high-dose vitamin therapy (500,000 IU orally per day for fourteen days). There was complete exfoliation the palmar-plantar keratoderma decrease in peeling follicular keratosis. He then placed on regimen gluten-free diet 100,000 day. After seven months he had persistent erythema but minimal hyperkeratosis. ways which cutaneous lesions could be related are discussed.