Wong Vincent, Fischer Gayle
Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Department of Dermatology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Australas J Dermatol. 2017 Nov;58(4):e236-e239. doi: 10.1111/ajd.12579. Epub 2017 Feb 28.
Congenital erosive and vesicular dermatosis with reticulated supple scarring is a rare cutaneous disorder of unknown aetiology first described by Cohen and colleagues in 1985. It classically presents in the neonate as erosions and vesicles that heal within the first months of life, with supple scarring of a reticulated pattern. Along with a review of the literature, this article presents two atypical cases of congenital erosive and vesicular dermatosis with reticulated supple scarring. Patient one presented with neither erosions nor vesicles at birth, yet continued to experience sporadic blistering at the age of 15 months and patient two is the second documented case to develop congenital erosive and vesicular dermatosis after birth.