Degenerative collagenous plaque of the hand (linear keratoelastoidosis of the hands). A variant of acrokeratoelastosis.

Clinical and histological features of three examples of degenerative collagenous plaques of the hands in Indian housewives have been described in detail in order to focus attention on a hitherto uncommon entity. Household trauma has been incriminated as the precipitating or a triggering factor in these cases.