Changing a concept - controversy on the confusing spectrum of the reticulate pigmented disorders of the skin

Galli‐Galli disease (GGD) and Dowling‐Degos disease (DDD) are inherited skin diseases with variable progressive course. They are of benign and harmless behaviour but aesthetically annoying. They are subsumed within the group of reticulate pigmented disorders of the skin to which, additionally, Kitamura’s and Haber’s diseases are counted. Clinical appearance is approximately similar, with slight differences in age of onset and associated...