Ichthyosis Fetalis

Rusdidjas Rusdidjas (Department of Child Health, Medical School, University of North Sumatra, Medan.)
Helena Siregar (Department of Child Health, Medical School, University of North Sumatra, Medan.)
Sjarikat Tarigan (Department of Child Health, Medical School, University of North Sumatra, Medan.)

Paediatrica Indonesiana
Vol 18 No 5-6 (1978): May - June 1978

A severe variety of ichthyosis fetalis or Harlequin fetus is reported with a brief review of the literature. It seemed that our case, Tadjuddin's (Jakarta), and Wong Hock Boon's (Singapore) assure us that the Harlequin fetus can also be seen in the tropics and in all traces where the ichthyosis gene is present.