Abstracts of papers presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Cutaneous Ultrastructure Research.

The article presents abstracts of papers presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Cutaneous Ultrastructure Research, held at Leiden, the Netherlands, in April 1982. Fetal manifestation of bullous ichthyosiform erythroderma and prenatal diagnosis of the disease by means of electron microscopy of fetal skin biopsies was discussed. A female patient with a generalized congenital ichthyosis was presented. The clinical picture was characterized by a reticulate hyperkeratosis with a remarkable skin pattern. Immuno-electronmicroscopic study of Langerhans' cells was also presented.