Original Article

Focal Dermal Hypoplasia (Goltz - Gorlin Syndrome)

  • Şerife Karagülle
  • Ümmühan Kiremitçi
  • Ülkü Öktem
  • Nesime Büyükbabani
  • Osman Hüten

İstanbul Med J 1999;3(2):46-49

The focal dermal hypoplasia is a X- dependend dominant cangenital disorder characterized by ectodermal and mesodermal malformations of the skin and its appendages. The characterized features; of the disease are on the skin lineer or reticular brownish red, some ofwhich telengiectasic atrophic lesions, anetoderma-like hemies, scars, on the mucoses papillomas, crab - claw deformity, shortness, osteopathia striata appearence on the metaphysis of long bones. We are presented a 30 year-old woman with the focal dermal hypoplasia.

Keywords: Focal Dermal Hypoplasia