Open AccessAplasia cutis congenita with two completely different presentations
Author(s) -
Sanchaita Bala,
Sumit Sen,
Atul Jain,
Amlan Biswas
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
medical journal of dr. d y patil university/medical journal of dr. d.y. patil university
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7119
pISSN - 0975-2870
DOI - 10.4103/0975-2870.135294
Subject(s) - aplasia cutis congenita , aplasia , medicine , scalp , genitourinary system , ectodermal dysplasia , congenital disorder , dermatology , cutis laxa , anatomy , surgery
Aplasia cutis congenita is a rare disorder, which presents with congenital absence of skin. Besides isolated presentation, it may manifest with other developmental malformation of cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, genitourinary and central nervous systems, and malformation syndromes such as chromosomal abnormalities, Adams-Oliver syndrome, Bart′s syndrome, and Johanson-Bilzzard syndrome. Here, we present two cases of aplasia cutis congenita, which represent two different types of the disease. The first case presented as non-syndromic aplasia cutis congenita of scalp, and the other case presented as a part of Bart′s syndrome