New features of aplasia cutis congenita type 5 – Skin atrophy associated with respiratory insufficiency and multiple intestinal atresia caused by the early death of twin fetus

A 1-day-old female infant was transferred to our NICU with a diagnosis of a congenital skin defect. She was born from a twin pregnancy complicated with intrauterine twin death in week 12 of pregnancy. Two previous pregnancies had ended early in spontaneous miscarriages. The infant presented hypersensitivity to stimuli, symmetrical skin defects covering 30% of the body, most widely distributed in a butterfly/H-pattern on the trunk, with thigh and elbow marks, and a single horizontal lesion underneath the clavicles and upon the sagittal suture.
Source: Pediatrics and Neonatology - Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Tags: Images Source Type: research