Fox-Fordyce Disease (Apocrine Miliaria)

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Fox-Fordyce disease, known as apocrine miliaria, is a rare chronic inflammatory skin disorder affecting apocrine glands, presenting with a pruritic papular eruption in regions like axillae and anogenital areas. Described in 1902 by George Henry Fox and John Addison Fordyce, it primarily affects females. Diagnosis relies on clinical evaluation due to a lack of specific tests. Treatment, challenging due to limited research, often targets symptom relief, with topical medications as the preferred initial option. However, systemic and surgical interventions are also available for management (see Image. Fox-Fordyce Disease).