Aplasia cutis congenita: Two cases of non-scalp lesions

Aplasia Cutis Congenita of the Scalp

Dr. João Paulo Cavalcante de Almeida – Rua Paulo Morais 130 60175-175 Fortaleza CE Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] Aplasia cutis congenita (ACC) is an uncommon disorder that presents as a focal defect of the skin at birth, frequently involving the midline over the skull vertex (70%), but it may affect any region of the body. Since 1767, about 500 cases have been reported in medica...

Aplasia cutis congenita of the scalp.

Aplasia cutis congenita is the congenital absence of skin. The majority of these defects involve the vertex of the scalp in the area overlying the sagittal sinus. The larger defects are predisposed to sudden lethal hemorrhage and require urgent closure. Local rotational scalp flaps are recommended for closure of the larger defects because they provide the most reliable coverage, eliminate the r...

Aplasia cutis congenita

The patient was a female neonate bornprematurely at 36 weeks of gestation by a Cesareansection. During pregnancy, the mother had nohistory of fever, drug use, or X-ray exposure.The mother was gravida 2 and had no history ofabortion. Her first child was healthy. There wasno record of birth trauma. The perinatal historywas negative for intrauterine trauma, the use ofantithyroid medication, or mis...

[Five cases of aplasia cutis congenita].

Aplasia Cutis Congenita of Scalp and Back: A Rare Entity

Citation: Sekhon V. Aplasia Cutis Congenita of Scalp and Back: A Rare Entity. Ann Clin Case Rep. 2017; 2: 1367. ISSN: 2474-1655 Copyright © 2017 Sekhon V. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Case Report Published: 05 J...