Maternal skin allograft for cicatricial ectropion in congenital icthyosis.

[lamellar ichthyosis]

A 6 -month -old infant with congenital icthyosis was brought to the authors with bilateral cicatricial ectropion of the upper and lower eyelid with resultant exposure keratopathy . Skin autograft was not possible due to generalized skin involvement , leading to unavailability of a donor site . A maternal skin allograft was performed for both eyelids of each eye . Prior human leukocyte antigen typing was not done , and postoperative immunosuppressive agents were not given . At 10 months ' follow-up , the graft was well accepted , and the ectropion was corrected .