title: Congenital absence of skin.
abstract: A 5-day-old girl with congenital absence of skin, a single placental artery, and infarction of the placenta is described. These findings support a vascular etiology and provide additional evidence for a degenerative, rather than an aplastic or traumatic, origin of absent skin in the newborn.
mesh_terms: D062109:Dermatologic Surgical Procedures; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012868:Skin Abnormalities