Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Gorlin Sign, Scar - DermAtlas

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Rakhesh SV, MD

Diagnosis

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome Gorlin sign scar

Body Site

hand thumb

Age

20 years

Pigmentation

medium

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Morphology

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Comments

This 20-year-old man had excessively stretchable skin, hyperextesiblity of the joints, cigarette paper thin scars, and a large soft fleshy nodules (molluscum pseudotumors) on his knees. Half of patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome can touch the tip of the nose with their tongue (Gorlin’s sign), compared with 10 percent of persons without the disorder.

Description

hyperextensibility of thumb

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1/25/2005 22:22:29

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