Cervicofacial rhytidoplasty in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: hazards on healing.

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is an uncommon autosomal-dominantly inherited connective tissue disorder marked by excessive skin and joint laxity and easy bruising and ecchymotic tendency that poses a formidable threat to achieving face lift surgery in its normal perspective. Since this surgery is often sought by these patients as a result of premature excessive skin wrinkling of the face, one has to be aware of its possibility during the preoperative examination of the patient. All the possible complications and their management are described to the patient with a case history actually presenting these complications.