A child was born with a skin covered with a horny carapace, consisting of thick (up to 1 cm) horny plates of gray-black color.

A child was born with a skin covered with a horny carapace, consisting of thick (up to 1 cm) horny plates of gray-black color. The scutes are serrated, separated by furrows. The lips are inactive, the mouth opening is sharply narrowed. The nose and auricles are deformed, the eyelids are twisted. The limbs are ugly. Hair and nails are missing. The child died 2 hours after birth. What pathology should you think about in this case?

Ichthyosis resulting from impaired embryogenesis of the skin and its derivatives at the early stages of embryonic induction, proliferation and differentiation of epidermal cells. Death occurred as a result of respiratory failure, heart and kidney failure caused by the inadequacy of the structure and function of other organ systems, the addition of a secondary infection.