25.  Cutis aplasia

Answer:
Cutis aplasia: Congenital absence of epidermis, dermis, and sometimes subcutis, from one or more circumscribed areas. Sixty percent of cases occur in the scalp.

Treatment: In infancy, control of secondary infection and good nursing are the only measures available. Later many defects can be satisfactorily corrected with plastic surgery.
 

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