This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (30)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

RUTH R. RAUSCHKOLB, M.D.; SERGIO I. ENRIQUEZ, M.D.

Arch Dermatol. 1962;86(1):54-57.

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

Congenital defect of the skin constitutes one of the rare and interesting anomalies peculiar to the newborn. Its extreme rarity, in comparison with the great frequency of minor aberrations such as disturbances of pigment, hair, glandular development, and vascular supply, can only mean that the natural, inherent factors at work in covering the body with some kind of an epithelial layer are far more ancient, fundamental, deepseated, tenacious, and stubborn than those influences which prescribe the finer details of that covering once it is established. Frank defects, absence of the skin, must invoke far more powerful, more incisive, genetic influences or have as etiology active trauma, physical violence, or other external forms of tissue destruction.¹

A variety of physical and endogenous factors may lead to arrested development of the embryonic skin.² There are many theories as to the cause, and no single one can explain all cases.³ . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CLEVELAND

From the Dermatology Department of Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital.

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