Acknowledgments The author gratefully thanks Mary Puchalski, RNC, MS, APN/CNS, for her assistance with the photographs for this article. This article is dedicated to Kali, Jo, and Cathy for ...

Elizabeth J. Lawrence, RNC, MSN, NNP Disclosures Adv Neonatal Care. 2005;5 (6):301-314.

Abstract De Barsy syndrome is a recessive progeroid disease classified under the group of cutis laxa syndromes. The disease is attributed to loss-of-function mutations in PYCR1 or ALDH18A1, leading to ...

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Background: Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is a rare inherited connective tissue disease secondary to mutations within the COL3A1 gene. The diagnosis of vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is challenging ...

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ABSTRACT Elastosis perforans serpiginosa is a disease that belongs to the group of perforating dermatoses, in which dermal elastic tissue extrusion occurs through epidermis. It generally affects young ...