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Report of Two Cases with Atrichia and Amastia

VICTOR MALAGON, M.D.; J. E. TAVERAS, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1956;74(3):253-258.

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On reviewing the subject of ectodermal dysplasia with mesodermal involvement we found that to date fewer than 100 cases of congenital ectodermal defect have been reported in the world literature⁵; those with mesodermal involvement have been even rarer. Many of the cases reported are incomplete and not authenticated. Involvement of the mesodermal layer certainly is a rarity in this entity,⁴ and those cases reported in which the central nervous system has also been involved have not been described in sufficient detail. McKee and Andrews,¹ in their magnificent exposition on the subject of congenital ectodermal defect, state that the combination of ectodermal defect with anomaly of the mesodermal layer is an exception. When the latter is associated with the ectodermal defect, the abnormalities noted by different authors are the following: cleft palate (complete or incomplete), satyr ears (McKee and Andrews), syndactylia (Cole), polydactylia, epispadia and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
San Juan, Puerto Rico

From the Medical Department, Fajardo District Hospital, Fajardo, and the Department of Pathology, Bayamon District Hospital, Bayamon, Puerto Rico.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct. 17, 1955.

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