Thatcher's Syndrome
| Classification according to ICD-10 | |
|---|---|
| Q82.8 | Hereditary palmoplantar keratosis |
| ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019) | |
The Thatcher syndrome , also Crohn Thatcher called, is a disease that is a very rare congenital form of palmoplantar keratosis .
The name refers to the author of the first description from 1912 by the Scottish doctor Lewis Thatcher .
The only publication so far reports on a family on the north island of Fetlar in the Shetland Islands who had keratosis palmoplantaris with short, broad hands, wart-shaped, with hypoplastic terminal phalanges and watch-glass nails. It is an autosomal - recessive accepted mode of inheritance.
Individual evidence
- ↑ T. Salamon: Associations of hereditary keratinization disorders of the palms and soles with diseases of other organs. In: OP Hornstein, M. Hundiker, J. Schönfeld (Ed.): New developments in dermatology , Volume 7, p. 157, 1993
- ^ R. Witkowski, O. Prokop, E. Ullrich: T. In: Lexikon der Syndrome und Malformen , p. 674, 1995, ISBN 978-3-642-97629-2 , online ISBN 978-3-642-97628- 5 doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-642-97628-5_24
- ^ A b L. Thatcher: On Tylosis Palmaris Et Plantaris, with Report of Three Cases. In: Edinburgh Medical Journal Vol. 8, 1912, pp. 342-344
