Gastrointestinal manifestations of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa
Michel-Aceves, R.; Ramírez-Mayans, J.A.; Casaubón-Garcín, P.; Rivera-Echegoyen, M.; Antonieta Mora, M.
Boletin Medico del Hospital Infantil de Mexico 47(1): 20-25
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0539-6115 PMID: 2186753 Document Number: 350557
The clinical charts of eight children with gastrointestinal symptomatology secondary to recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa are reviewed. The most frequently found gastrointestinal lesions were esophageal stricture (6 patients), a repeated history of ampullar lesions (8 patients), constipation (5) and anchiloglossia (2). The most frequent and feared lesion is the esophageal stricture. Esophageal stricture; epidermolysis; gastrointestinal manifestations.