What in the hell is a harlequin fetus?
2006-11-06 10:17:06 · 4 answers · asked by Fünfhundertfünfundfünfzig 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Harlequin fetus refers to a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder of skin formation. It is a severely disfiguring disorder involving thickened, ridged, and cracked skin forming horny plates over the entire body, distorting the facial features and constricting the digits. It is usually fatal in the first few days of life. It can be prenatally diagnosed in mothers who have a family history of the disease.
2006-11-06 10:20:01 · answer #1 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ichthyosis Fetalis is the other name for this disease. See the site below.
The proper description starts down the page a bit.
2006-11-06 10:19:26 · answer #2 · answered by huggz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?ei=UTF-8&p=harlequin%20fetus&fr=ush-ans&fr2=tab-web
Searched it on yahoo! images
2006-11-06 10:26:29 · answer #3 · answered by Answerer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know what is it ?
2006-11-06 10:19:31 · answer #4 · answered by Big R 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋