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These are a heterogeneous group of disorders of infectious or noninfectious origin that commonly present as regularly spaced, small papules with or without perifollicular inflammation. Inflammatory causes include follicular eczema, pityriasis rubra pilaris, lichen nitidus, follicular seborrheic dermatitis, keratosis pilaris and its variants, keratosis circumscripta, follicular psoriasis, lichen spinulosus, follicular lichen planus, follicular mucinosis, perforating folliculitis, follicular porokeratosis, and follicular dermographism. These conditions may arise due to filaggrin mutations, keratinization defects, autoimmunity, or microbial triggers. Nutritional causes include phrynoderma and scurvy, while connective tissue diseases such as dermatomyositis and chronic cutaneous lupus erythematosus are autoimmune. Additional categories include infectious, genetic, hormonal, environmental, frictional, malignant, nevus-related, iatrogenic, and idiopathic entities. 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