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Genetic Skin Disorders
by Virginia P. Sybert, MD, 675 pp, with illus, $195, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1998;152:1157.
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Dr Sybert, a professor in the Departments of Dermatology and Medical Genetics at University of Washington, Seattle, out of her own frustration at not finding a readily available and easy-to-read text, has written a 675-page book dedicated to the skin and how it relates to and appears in genetic disorders. It is modeled after David Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation , an often-referenced and comprehensive text, in scholarly and engaging discussions of clinical features, modes of inheritance, and prenatal and differential diagnoses.
She begins with a brief chapter on the practical inheritance of genetic disorders and analyzes the skin in a histologic fashion. The topics include common dermatologic conditions such as epidermolysis bullosa and albinism as well as less commonly seen entities such as harlequin fetus and ectodermal dysplasias. Included are chapters on tumors, metabolic diseases, photosensitivities, and immune deficiency states. For each entity, the common syndromic name is . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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