Juvenile Plantar Dermatosis: An Expression of Atopic Dermatitis

Abstract

Thirty patients with hands and feet eczema were evaluated with special reference to relationship with atopic dermatitis. To know the relationship we observed the basic and minor features of atopic dermatitis described by Hanifin in patients who visited our hospital with the chief complaints of eczema of hands and feet. Among the 30, 28 had basic features and 20 had minor features of atopic dermatitis. It can be speculated that most patients with hands and feet eczema in children have an atopic constitution so that hands and feet eczema in children seems to be an expression of atopic eczema. Two of thirty patients did not have an atopic consitution and eczema in these patients might be distinct dermatoses which are not related with atopic dermatitis.