Morphometric analysis of elastic skin fibres from patients with: Cutis laxa, anetoderma, pseudoxanthoma elasticum, and Buschke-Ollendorff and Williams-Beuren syndromes

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 305-311

  Ghomrasseni, S ^a   Dridi, M ^a   Bonnefoix, M ^a   Septier, D ^a   Gogly, G ^a   Pellat, B ^a   Godeau, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Elastic skin fibres; Hereditary or acquired diseases; Image analysis

Indexed keywords

ELASTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANETODERMA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COLLAGEN DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTIS LAXA; DATA ANALYSIS; DERMIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELASTIC FIBER; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN EXAMINATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; CUTIS LAXA; DERMIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTIC TISSUE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM; SKIN; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 0034747909     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-3083.2001.00268.x     Document Type: Article

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