DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.
Clinical picture with irregularly distributed, soft, skin-coloured, asymptomatic, small papular nodules. Entity disputed; minus variant of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome?
Occurrence/EpidemiologyThis section has been translated automatically.
Chest, stomach, back.
HistologyThis section has been translated automatically.
Reduction or loss of elastic fibres with fragmentation (elastolysis); homogenisation of collagenous connective tissue.
LiteratureThis section has been translated automatically.
- Sears et al (1988) Papular elastorrhexis: A variant of connective tissue nevus. J Am Acad Dermatol 19: 409
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