Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: An 11-month-old girl presented to our clinic with widespread erythema, desquamation, and sparse hair.She had been diagnosed with phenylketonuria (PKU) at birth and was on a strict phenylalanine (Phe)-restricted diet.Her cutaneous symptoms had first appeared at 9 months of age, initially manifesting as symmetric pinpoint brown papules on the lower extremities and the dorsum of the hands.Subsequently, the lesions enlarged with progressive desquamation.She had previously been diagnosed with eczema by several dermatologists and treated Jiayan Zhang, Jinxiang Yang and Qiuyang Guo contributed equally to this work.
DOI: 10.1111/ddg.16000
Authors: Jiayan Zhang, Jinxiang Yang, Qiuyang Guo, Guofang Li, Ruhong Cheng, Yin Zhuang, Zhirong Yao
Institutions: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, XinHua Hospital
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Biochemistry
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4416607741