ElastorrhexisQ82.8

A clinical and histological term for degenerative changes in elastic tissue that is rarely used in medical terminology and is also used inconsistently and therefore superfluous. In general, the clinical term "elastorrhexis" has been used to describe clinical pictures which are to be regarded as minus variants of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. This includes in particular the systematized "Estorrhexis" described by Touraine; to what extent the papular elastorrhexis described by Sears in 1988 as papular elastorrhexis can also be addressed as a minus variant of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome remains open at present. The term elastorrhexis is also used histologically (synonymous with elastolysis) in isolated cases. The histomorphological term "elastorrhexis" can also be dispensed with.