Self-healing juvenile cutaneous mucinosis

Self-healing juvenile cutaneous mucinosis
Specialty	Dermatology

Self-healing juvenile cutaneous mucinosis is a skin condition caused by fibroblasts producing abnormally large amounts of mucopolysaccharides, and is characterized by the sudden onset of skin lesions and polyarthritis.[1]^:185

References

James, William D.; Berger, Timothy G.; et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-7216-2921-6.

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Mucinosis/Lichen myxedematosus
Localized lichen myxedematosus	Discrete papular lichen myxedematosus Acral persistent papular mucinosis Self-healing papular mucinosis/Self-healing juvenile cutaneous mucinosis Papular mucinosis of infancy Atypical lichen myxedematosus Atypical tuberous myxedema Nodular lichen myxedematosus
Other primary mucinoses	Cutaneous focal mucinosis Cutaneous lupus mucinosis Eccrine mucinosis Alopecia mucinosa Perifollicular mucinosis Stiff skin syndrome Generalized lichen myxedematosus
Secondary mucinoses	Basal-cell carcinoma Granuloma annulare