Bazex-Dupre-Christol syndrome: A very rare syndrome characterized by decreased hair growth, basal cell cancers and destruction of skin follicles which tends to affect the extremities, elbows and knees. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Bazex-Dupre-Christol syndrome is available below.
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A syndrome combining major characteristics of the nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome (qv) with follicular atrophoderma, hypotrichosis, hypohidrosis, and minor skin defects. Some patients are retarded. - (Source - Diseases Database)
Bazex-Dupre-Christol syndrome is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Bazex-Dupre-Christol syndrome, or a subtype of Bazex-Dupre-Christol syndrome,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ophanet, a consortium of European partners,
currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000.
They list Bazex-Dupre-Christol syndrome as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
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