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Clinical presentation.
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Fifty-two-year-old male patient presented to the Military Hospital, Colombo with whitish lesions on both buccal mucosae and crusty lips (Figures 1(a) and 1(b)) for two years duration.
Histopathology.
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Histopathologically, the biopsy revealed the presence of suprabasal splits in the epithelium with acantholytic and dyskeratotic cells (Figures 2(a) and 2(b)) observed as round and granular corpuscles and was reported as keratosis follicularis by a multidisciplinary team.