elastosis

The condition is known as elastosis and can be especially easy to see in parts of the body that have been most exposed to the sun.

They come to closely resemble fibers seen in biopsies of solar elastosis.

Actinic elastosis usually appears as thickened, dry, wrinkled skin.

The researchers found that solar elastosis, or sun damage to the skin, was independently associated with a surprising increased survival from melanoma.

In the earlier stages of actinic elastosis, elastic fiber proliferation can be seen in the dermis.

The underlying dermis often shows severe actinic elastosis and a mild chronic inflammatory infiltrate.

It is often difficult to distinguish basal-cell cancer from acne scar, actinic elastosis, and recent cryodestruction inflammation.

Pterygium in the conjunctiva is characterized by elastotic degeneration of collagen (actinic elastosis) and fibrovascular proliferation.

In fact, elastosis is seen most noticeably in people who spend most of their time outdoors; it can cause a leathery, weather-beaten appearance [source: Dugdale].

And all measures of sun exposure (i.e., history of severe sunburn, high levels of intermittent sun exposure, solar elastosis) were associated with improved survival from melanoma.

Elastosis perforans serpiginosa is a unique perforating disorder characterized by transepidermal elimination of elastic fibers and distinctive clinical lesions, which are serpiginous in distribution and can be associated with specific diseases.

Favre-Racouchot syndrome (also known as "Favre-Racouchot disease," and "Nodular cutaneous elastosis with cysts and comedones") is a disorder consisting of multiple open comedones that occurs in skin damaged by sunlight, especially under and lateral of the eyes.

Gronblad-Strandberg syndrome elastosis dystrophica syndrome (obsolete) systemic elastorrhexis (obsolete) PXE, recessive type PXE, dominant type Pseudoxanthoma elasticum, PXE, is an inherited disorder that affects selected connective tissue in some parts of the body.

Actinic, or solar, elastosis is an accumulation of abnormal elastin (elastic tissue) in the dermis of the skin, and in the conjunctiva of the eye, which occurs as a result of the cumulative effects of prolonged and excessive sun exposure, a process known as photoaging.