Favre-Racouchot syndrome

Favre-Racouchot syndrome
a type of actinic elastosis usually seen in elderly men, in which giant comedones, pilosebaceous cysts, and large folds of furrowed and yellowish skin are seen in the periorbital region. Called also nodular elastosis or elastoidosis.

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