Collodion baby
A newborn child with lamellar ichthyosis; at birth, the skin is bright red, shiny,
translucent, and drawn tight, giving a distorted appearance (as if having been painted
with collodion) of immobilization of the face; contraction of the skin causes ectropion, a
pressed down appearance of the nose, and a gaping of the mouth and the labia; autosomal
dominant inheritance.
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