title: Bullous solar elastosis.
abstract: Solar elastosis (SE) is a well-recognized manifestation of chronic sun exposure, mainly affecting white patients. Well-established clinical manifestations of SE include Favre-Racouchot syndrome, cutis rhomboidalis nuchae, actinic comedonal plaques, elastomas, elastotic nodules of the ears, elastotic bands, collagenous plaques of the hands and colloid millia. Bullous SE is a very unusual presentation of SE, which consists clinically of tense bullae on chronically sun-damaged skin and is characterized histopathologically by a dermal cleft within a dermis with severe SE. Bullous SE is a rare but characteristic clinical expression of SE.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Military Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Heras
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jiménez
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Soguero
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Arjona
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Plaza
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Requena
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003240:Connective Tissue Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D004547:Elastic Tissue / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012872:Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D013472:Sunlight / Q000009:adverse effects*