Lamellar Ichthyosis: A Case Study

Abstract

Lamellar Ichthyosis is a rare genodermatoses that appears at birth and continues throughout a person’s life with an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. At birth, most affected infants present as collodian babies, and after shedding the membrane, develop scaling over the body in the localized or generalized pattern. It has an equal incidence in males and females and is estimated to occur approximately 1 in 300,000 live births in the United States. Here, we describe this rare condition of Lamellar Ichthyosis in a 5 month old male baby who was admitted in hospital with the diagnosis of Sepsis. The purpose of reporting this case is to bring clinical understanding of this rare disorder and reviewing the current emerging knowledge about it