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

Robin Ashinoff, MD; Roy G. Geronemus, MD
Department of Dermatology New York University Medical Center 530 First Ave New York, NY 10016

Arch Dermatol. 1990;126(11):1520-1521.

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

To the Editor.—

The Thrombocytopenia-Absent Radii (TAR) syndrome is a congenital syndrome encompassing several maladies. Foreshortening of the forearms and radially deviated hands are noted in all cases. In addition, patients always have thrombocytopenia with abnormal megakaryocytes in the bone marrow.^1-4 The thrombocytopenia usually presents at birth or during the neonatal period, can be very severe with significant morbidity, but usually resolves after the first year of life.

The TAR syndrome may be inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, although alternate modes of transmission have also been proposed.^1-4 Several patients have also had port-wine stains of the head and neck region.^2-4

The patient with TAR syndrome who is presented here also has an extensive port-wine stain. The flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye laser (PDL) had no effect on his port-wine stain with no lightening seen after three test treatments. We postulate that his severe thrombocytopenia prevented the formation of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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