... A minority of collodion babies, called ‘self‐healing collodion babies’, heal spontaneously. We describe a novel clinical phenotype of acral self‐healing collodion baby caused by a new TGM1 mutation. The proband, born to healthy parents, presented at birth as a collodion baby strictly localized...

...‐like membrane and diffuse erythema, and had been diagnosed as a collodion baby. PPK and generalized ichthyosis with erythroderma developed subsequently. The constricting bands appeared at the age of 3 years, and affected the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joints of all fingers. There was diffuse well...

... with fragile skin (blistering) and several with multisystem complications, such as Netherton syndrome. Salient features of each are reviewed with illustrations of selected cases and management is outlined. Two important neonatal presentations, collodion baby and harlequin ichthyosis, are described. dry...