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[Gastrointestinal manifestations of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa]
R Michel-Aceves1, J A Ramírez-Mayans, P Casaubón-Garcín
1Servicio de Gastroenterología Pediátrica, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, México.
Boletin Medico Del Hospital Infantil De Mexico
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
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.