Collodion baby associated with congenital auricular anomalies: Postpartum splinting of a rare congenital auricular deformity.

A female full term newborn was transferred, immediately after birth, to our Intensive Neonatal Care Unit with diagnosis of collodion baby. On admission the skin surface was covered by a cornified substance of uniform texture, thinner at the joints’ level, which gave the whole body a varnished appearance;1 the newborn showed oedema of upper and lower limbs, ectropion, lip eversion, flattening of the nose and bilateral deformities of ear. Laboratory investigations and urinalysis were normal.