A NEW CASE OF EXTENSIVE CONGENITAL EROSIONS AND VESICLES HEALING WITHRETICULATE SCARRING

Congenital erosions and vesicles that heal with reticulate scarring co mprise a new entity first described in 1985 in 3 girls aged 3, 5 and 6 years. Two years later, an 8-year-old boy in whom the skin lesions we re accompanied by neurological disorders was described, as in one of t he patients described in the 1985 study. in 1990, similar findings wer e reported in a neonate, and recently the 7th case has been reported i n the American literature. We describe an 8-month-old infant born with cutaneous lesions that subsequently formed reticulate scars peculiar to this clinical entity, which is characterized by variable clinical a nd histological expression.