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Michelin tire baby syndrome

Michelin tire baby syndrome is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Michelin tire baby syndrome rather than just read about it. In short: Michelin tire baby syndrome (also known as Kunze–Riehm syndrome and "folded skin with scarring"), is a condition occurring in babies that is characterized by multiple, symmetric, circular skin creases, or bands, on the forearms, lower legs, and often the neck that are present at birth. The creases disappear later in life.

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Reference excerpt

Michelin tire baby syndrome (also known as Kunze–Riehm syndrome and "folded skin with scarring"), is a condition occurring in babies that is characterized by multiple, symmetric, circular skin creases, or bands, on the forearms, lower legs, and often the neck that are present at birth. The creases disappear later in life. They are reminiscent of those of Bibendum, the mascot of the tire manufacturer Michelin, hence the name of the syndrome. Associated abnormalities vary and may include facial dysmorphism, upslanting palpebral fissures, hypertelorism, cleft palate, genital anomalies, mild developmental delay, ureterocele, smooth muscle hamartoma, nevus lipomatosus, Laron syndrome (dwarfism with high growth hormone and low somatomedin activity), and other defects. It was originally described by Ross in 1969.

See also List of cutaneous conditions

Notes

References Bass HN, Caldwell S, Brooks BS (February 1993). "Michelin tire baby syndrome: familial constriction bands during infancy and early childhood in four generations". Am J Med Genet. 45 (3): 370–2. doi:10.1002/ajmg.1320450318. PMID 8434626. Schnur RE, Herzberg AJ, Spinner N, et al. (February 1993). "Variability in the Michelin tire syndrome. A child with multiple anomalies, smooth muscle hamartoma, and familial paracentric inversion of chromosome 7q". J Am Acad Dermatol. 28 (2 Pt 2): 364–70. doi:10.1016/0190-9622(93)70056-Y. PMID 8436660. Schnur RE, Zackai EH (March 1997). "Circumferential ringed creases ('Michelin tire babies') with specific histologic findings and/or karyotype abnormalities: clues to molecular pathogenesis?". Am J Med Genet. 69 (2): 221. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19970317)69:2<221::AID-AJMG22>3.0.CO;2-M. PMID 9056567. Pivnick EK, Wilroy RS, Martens PR, Teather TC, Hashimoto K (April 1996). "Hypertrichosis, pigmentary retinopathy, and facial anomalies: a new syndrome?". Am J Med Genet. 62 (4): 386–90. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19960424)62:4<386::AID-AJMG11>3.0.CO;2-K. PMID 8723069. Oku T, Iwasaki K, Fujita H (November 1993). "Folded skin with an underlying cutaneous smooth muscle hamartoma". Br J Dermatol. 129 (5): 606–8. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2133.1993.tb00495.x. PMID 8251362. S2CID 34499359.

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In the classroom: Michelin tire baby syndrome is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Dermal and subcutaneous growths, Pediatrics, Syndromes, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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