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Review Article

Korean J Pediatr. 2006;49(1):1-5. Published online January 15, 2006.

Neonatal skin diseases

Kyu Han KH Kim¹

¹Derpartment of Dermatology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Correspondence Kyu Han KH Kim ,Email: kyukim@snuac.kr

Abstract

Several physiological skin changes such as vernix caseosa, cutis marmorata, physiologic desquamation, and sebaceous hyperplasia have been described in the neonatal period. There are also clinical characteristics of skin peculiar to neonate and infancy. Skin disorders observed during neonatal and infancy period can be divided into transient skin lesions, birth marks, and other diseases. Transient skin lesions include milia, sebaceous gland hyperplasia, erythema neonatorum, transient neonatal pustular melanosis, and acne neonatorum. Nevocellular nevus, mongolian spot, vascular malformation, hemangioma, epidermal nevus, and sebaceous nevus belong to birth marks. There are several common skin diseases such as miliaria, diaper dermatitis, atopic dermatitis, seborrheic dermatitis, and cutaneous candidiasis.

Keywords :Physiological skin changes , Skin disorders observed during neonatal and infancy period