title: [Cutaneous hyalinosis: 3 cases].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The authors report three cases of "Hyalinosis cutis et mucosae"; the first and the second case concern two siblings children (brother and sister) while the third is reported on a 42-year-old woman.
  
  
  METHODS
  The case history and the personal anamnesis, the morphology of the skin lesions, the symptoms indicating laryngeal mucous affection as well as the histopathological picture, are compatible with the "Urbach-Wiethe disease". Furthermore, in the third case, the electron microscopic findings confirm the diagnosis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The particularities of the present cases are discussed in connection with the corresponding bibliographical data.
authors.affiliation: Clinique Universitaire des Maladies Cutanées et Vénériennes Hôpital, A. Sygros, Athènes, Grèce.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stavrianeas
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karpouzis
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vamvassakis
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Patrou
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Koumantaki-Mathioudaki
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Papadopoulos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001284:Atrophy / Q000473:pathology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006818:Hyalin / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D015595:Skin Aging; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D014827:Vocal Cords / Q000473:pathology; D014832:Voice Disorders / Q000209:etiology