Oral fluconazole treatment of fungating candidiasis in the keratitis, ichthyosis and deafness (KID) syndrome.

Abstract

We report a patient with a congenital ichthyosiform eruption, sensorineural deafness, vascularizing keratitis and pannus formation, and hypotrichosis, who developed recalcitrant fungating candidal plaques on the skin. There was no family history of similar disease, or of consanguinity. The steroid sulphatase level in the keratin was within normal limits, and this finding excluded a diagnosis of X-linked recessive ichthyosis. Treatment with oral fluconazole for 14 weeks resulted in complete resolution of the fungating lesions, and there has been no evidence of recurrence during a 12-month follow-up period.