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Dyskeratosis congenita: a light microscopic and ultrastructural study Volume 8, numéro 5, July - August 1998

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Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama, Japan.
  • Page(s) : 307-9
  • Année de parution : 1998

Dyskeratosis congenita (DC), also called Zinsser-Cole-Engman syndrome, is a rare disorder with an X-linked, recessive inheritance [1]. It is characterized by the following triad of clinical symptoms: (1) dystrophy of the nails with failure of the nails to form a nailplate, (2) whitish thickening (leukokeratosis) of the oral and occasionally of the anal mucosa, and (3) extensive areas of net-like pigmentation of the skin suggestive [...]