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Ectopic respiratory mucosa in the skin associated with skeletal malformation and polydactyly
A Alfadley1, B Hainau, Al Aboud K
1Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, PO Box 3354, Riyadh 11211, Saudi Arabia.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
|October 25, 2000
Abstract:
We report a 19-year-old man with congenital erythematous plaque on his left arm that was found histopathologically to be composed of respiratory mucosa. The patient had a triphalangeal thumb and polydactyly in the left hand. This is, to our knowledge, only the third case of ectopic respiratory epithelium presenting as a superficial lesion in the skin to be reported in the English literature, and the first case associated with skeletal malformation and polydactyly.