Elastorrhexis Q82.8

A clinical and histological term for degenerative changes in elastic tissue that is rarely used in medical terminology, is applied inconsistently, and is therefore redundant. In general, the clinical term “elastorrhexis” has been used to describe clinical presentations that are considered variant forms of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. These include, in particular, the systematized “estorrhexis” described by Touraine; the extent to which the condition described by Sears in 1988 as papular elastorrhexis should also be classified as a milder form of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome remains unclear at this time. In very rare cases, the term “elastorrhexis” is also used histologically (as a synonym for elastolysis). The histomorphological term “elastorrhexis” can also be dispensed with.