ElastorrhexisQ82.8

Author:Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer

All authors of this article

Last updated on: 29.10.2020

Dieser Artikel auf Deutsch

Requires free registration (medical professionals only)

Please login to access all articles, images, and functions.

Our content is available exclusively to medical professionals. If you have already registered, please login. If you haven't, you can register for free (medical professionals only).


Requires free registration (medical professionals only)

Please complete your registration to access all articles and images.

To gain access, you must complete your registration. You either haven't confirmed your e-mail address or we still need proof that you are a member of the medical profession.

Finish your registration now

DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.

A clinical and histological term for degenerative changes in elastic tissue that is rarely used in medical terminology and is also used inconsistently and therefore superfluous. In general, the clinical term "elastorrhexis" has been used to describe clinical pictures which are to be regarded as minus variants of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. This includes in particular the systematized "Estorrhexis" described by Touraine; to what extent the papular elastorrhexis described by Sears in 1988 as papular elastorrhexis can also be addressed as a minus variant of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome remains open at present. The term elastorrhexis is also used histologically (synonymous with elastolysis) in isolated cases. The histomorphological term "elastorrhexis" can also be dispensed with.

Authors

Last updated on: 29.10.2020