PSEUDOXANTHOMA-ELASTICUM-LIKE PAPILLARY DERMAL ELASTOLYSIS - ANOTHER CASE

Authors
PATRIZI A NERI I TREVISI P VAROTTI C
Citation
A. Patrizi et al., PSEUDOXANTHOMA-ELASTICUM-LIKE PAPILLARY DERMAL ELASTOLYSIS - ANOTHER CASE, Dermatology, 189(3), 1994, pp. 289-291
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases
Journal title
Dermatology → ACNP
ISSN journal
10188665
Volume
189
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
289 - 291
Database
ISI
SICI code
1018-8665(1994)189:3<289:PPDE-A>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
Pseudoxanthoma-elasticum-like papillary dermal elastolysis is a rare a cquired idiopathic non-inflammatory elastolytic disorder. This disease , described in aged females, is characterized by asymptomatic skin les ions of the neck and supraclavicular regions clinically resembling pse udoxanthoma elasticum. Histological and ultrastructural examinations s how a total loss of the elastic fibres in the papillary dermis. We rep ort another case of this entity in a 69-year-old Italian woman.