This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

D. Martin Carter, MD; John L. Fromer, MD

Arch Dermatol. 1973;108(2):283-287.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Epidermolysis Bullosa. Presented by ARRON B. LERNER, MD, MENDALL JORDAN, MD.

A 7-year-old boy has had a blistering disorder since one day after birth. At 1 year of age he developed dysphagia; a barium swallow showed constriction of the middle third of the esophagus. He has had pruritus, which was relieved by systemically administered steroids but not by antihistamines. Recently, he has had difficulty passing stools and developed rectal fissures. The slightest trauma caused bullae; healing was associated with scarring and milia formation. There was no history of consanguinity. The patient's father has occasional blisters on his knuckles, hands, and ankles as well as violaceous plaques and milia over his knuckles. The development of the father's skin disease was concomitant with a flare of regional ileitis and was thought to represent acquired epidermolysis bullosa.

An examination of the boy showed generalized . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?