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"This chapter covers clinical signs relating to the nails, hair, and skin (Absent or Hypoplastic Nails, "Tale of a Nail" Sign, Longitudinal Splitting of the Nails, Short Nails, Temporal Balding, Sparse Hair/Alopecia, Poliosis, Cafe'-au-Lait Patches, Acanthosis Nigricans, Diffuse Hypopigmented Streaky Lesions, Piebaldism, Cutis Marmorata, Capillary Hemangioma, Telangiectasia, Ichthyosis, Excess Skin ) and, for each sign, gives information on how to recognize the sign, establishing a differential diagnosis, and investigations to consider. Relavent images are included for each sign.
Chapter. 7080 words. Illustrated.
Subjects: Clinical Genetics ; Neonatology
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