title: Self-healing collodion baby: evidence for autosomal recessive inheritance.
abstract: Five spontaneously healing collodion babies were recorded in a large Swiss kindred. They all had consanguineous parents. Their distribution in the family indicates autosomal recessive inheritance. At birth they had the typical features of collodion babies. The collodion-like membrane was shed within the first month, leaving a slightly scaly skin for a few weeks. Thereafter the skin remained normal without any evidence of a disorder of cornification.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Frenk
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: de Techtermann
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003241:Consanguinity; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D005808:Genes, Recessive; D006801:Humans; D007057:Ichthyosis / Q000235:genetics*; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008047:Lip Diseases / Q000235:genetics; D008297:Male; D014945:Wound Healing