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Our Experience with Aplasia Cutis Congenita
Author(s) -
Çaksen Hüseyin,
Kurtoğlu Selim
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
the journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1346-8138
pISSN - 0385-2407
DOI - 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2002.tb00285.x
Subject(s) - aplasia cutis congenita , medicine , scalp , aplasia , ectodermal dysplasia , dermatology , congenital disorder , genitourinary system , anatomy , surgery
Aplasia cutis congenita is a rare disorder characterized by developmental absence of skin on the scalp as multiple or solitary, noninflammatory, well demarcated, oval or circular 1‐ to 2‐cm ulcers. The disease may be isolated or associated with anomalies of the skin, eyes, ear‐nose‐neck and limbs, developmental defects of the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, genitourinary and central nervous systems, and malformation syndromes such as chromosomal abnormalities, Adams‐Oliver syndrome, Bart's syndrome, and Johanson‐Bilzzard syndrome. In this article, five newborn infants with aplasia cutis congenita (one associated with Adams‐Oliver syndrome and another concomitant with Bart's syndrome) are reported because of their rare presentation in the literature.