Acrogeria
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Acrogeria (Gottron's syndrome) is a skin condition characterized by premature aging, typically in the form of unusually fragile, thin skin on the hands and feet (distal extremities).
Research
72 papers- Acrogeria.Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine · 1957
- Gottron's acrogeria and sarcoidosis.The Clinical investigator · 1993
- A case of acrogeria.The Journal of dermatology · 1993
- Acrogeria, an exceptional cause of acro-osteolysis.Clinical and experimental dermatology · 2024
- [Acrogeria (Grotton)].Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 1970
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Acrogeria (Gottron's syndrome) is a skin condition characterized by premature aging, typically in the form of unusually fragile, thin skin on the hands and feet (distal extremities).
This is one of the classic congenital premature aging syndromes, occurring early in life, others being pangeria (Werner's syndrome) and progeria (Hutchinson–Gilford's syndrome), and was characterized in 1940. Acrogeria was originally described by Gottron in 1941, when he noticed premature cutaneous aging localized on the hands and feet in two brothers. The problem had been present since birth.