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SYNDROMES
Chondrodysplasia punctata – Conradi’s disease
Glucagonoma syndrome
Kawasaki’s disease – recurrent skin peeling 
Arch Dis Child
83:353–355, 2000; membranous desquamation of hands and
feet 
JAAD 39:383–398, 1998; perianal erythema and
desquamation 
Textbook of Neonatal Dermatology, p.306, 2001;
AD 124:1805–1810, 1988
Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis – onychomadesis (shedding of
nail) 
Ghatan p.83, 2002, Second Edition
Netherton’s syndrome – ichthyosis linearis circumflexa
Peeling skin syndrome (erythrokeratolysis, familial peeling skin
syndrome, keratolysis exfoliativa congenita, deciduous skin) –
generalized superficial peeling at birth or early childhood;
reported with easily plucked hair, shedding of nails, stunted
growth with hypogonadism, anosmia 
Int J Dermatol
38:208–210, 1999; JAAD 30:135–136, 1994; BJD 116:117–125,
1987; AD 122:71–75, 1986; AD 9:487–498, 1924; familial
peeling skin syndrome with eosinophilia 
Arch Pathol Lab Med
120:662–665, 1996; type A (non-inflammatory); type B
(inflammatory) – autosomal recessive; erythroderma, congenital
onset, pruritus, infections 
Ped Derm 19:382–387, 2002; peeling
skin syndrome, fissured cheilitis, blistering of palms and soles,
and desmosomal abnormalities 
JAAD 34:379–385, 1996
Recalcitrant erythematous desquamating (RED) syndrome –
diffuse macular erythema, ocular and mucosal erythema,
strawberry tongue, delayed desquamation in the setting of AIDS
JAAD 39:383–398, 1998
X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia – neonatal scaling
mimicking physiologic scaling of the newborn 
J Pediatr
114:600–602, 1989
TOXINS
Acrodynia (pink disease) – mercury poisoning;
AD
124:107–109, 1988; desquamation of palms Ped Derm
21:254–259, 2004 mercurochrome Clin Toxicol 13:79–96, 1978
Arsenic – acute arsenic intoxication; initially morbilliform
eruption with development of vesicles, pustules on red
background; followed by generalized desquamation and
palmoplantar lamellar desquamation 
BJD 149:757–762, 2003;
BJD 141:1106–1109, 1999