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S Maghraoui

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PubMed1994

[Acquired mid-dermal elastolysis. 2 new cases].

Two new cases of mid-dermal elastolysis are reported. In the first case, a 32-year-old woman, the clinical picture included the typical perifollicular protrusions of the trunk and wrinkled skin of the members. There was no prodrome and no other signs were associated. In the second case, a 39-year-old woman, after a 14-year clinical course, the skin manifestations involved the entire body with the exception of the face. Over the years, the initial follicular papules progressively formed plaques of wrinkled skin.

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PubMed1994

[Acquired mid-dermal elastolysis].

Sixteen cases of acquired mid-dermal elastolysis have been reported in the literature. In 1977, Shelley identified this type of elastolysis as a separate entity and described three variants: post-inflammatory elastolysis with cutis laxa predominates in facial areas in African children. The initial inflammatory lesions are replaced by rough wrinkling of the skin; post-inflammatory elastolysis without cutis laxa; non-inflammatory elastolysis without cutis laxa as mid-dermal elastolysis. It is difficult nevertheless to classify certain cases reported in the literature. This would suggest that there is in reality a continuum of acquired elastolysis which could be classed according to a scale of decreasing initial inflammation. The non-inflammatory pole would represent mid-dermal elastolysis. The common features of the different types of elastolysis are dominated by the absence of a causative agent in most cases, unknown pathogenesis and the fact that the empirical treatments which have been used have been ineffective.

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