Epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica

Epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica, also called dystrophic EB and abbreviated DEB, is an inherited disease that affects the skin and other organs. It is one of the forms of epidermolysis bullosa, the group of blistering skin disorders. Children born with the disease are colloquially called butterfly children, because their skin is as delicate and fragile as the wings of a butterfly. In the Medicine Atlas it is recorded as an inherited condition of the skin, kept as its own entry because the dystrophic form is a distinct disorder with its own course, separate from the broader epidermolysis bullosa entry.