Unraveling the mystery of the disorder of keratinization: the path of syndromic ichthyoses.

In the last few years the progresses in molecular analysis allow better definitions of ichthyoses and lead to the necessity of a new classification and a review of nomenclature of inherited ichthyoses. So, in 2007 the First Consensus Conference on Ichthyoses was performed. We present here a short review of the new classification of syndromic ichthyoses together with clinical and molecular features.