Congenital Skin Defect of the Newborn

Abstract

William Campbell (1826) published the first account of congenital skin defect of the newborn. The two patients he described were infants of the same family, the lesions affecting the scalp in each case; both infants died, one from haemorrhage on the eighteenth day, and the other from hydro- cephalus at nine months; in the latter healing had begun before birth.