TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Genodermatosis A1 - Agim, Nnenna G. A1 - Kunishige, Joy H. A1 - Thurber, Marzieh A1 - Feasel, Adrienne M. A1 - Hebert, Adelaide A. A2 - Ali, Asra PY - 2015 T2 - McGraw-Hill Education Specialty Board Review Dermatology: A Pictorial Review, 3e AB - Disorder with the formation of bullae and erosions following mechanical trauma to the skin and mucosaAll types of EB patients exhibit fragile skin and blisters. Scarring, nail dystrophy, milia, and scarring alopecia occur in the forms involving the lamina lucida and belowGene defects cause abnormalities in structural proteins of the epidermis and the epidermal-dermal junctionSubtypes are classified based on the ultrastructural level of blisters (Table 14-1), mode of inheritance, and the clinical featuresThere are four major EB types (Table 14-2) and multiple related subtypes (Table 14-3) SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/24 UR - dermatology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1176114943 ER -