Estrada CG

Language: Spanish
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Page: 223-225
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ABSTRACT

Vampire leyend has an uncertain origin, but the most accepted one, places it in the East and West of Europe. It is described as a creature that requires human or animal blood in order to survive or remain in activity. There is a wide amount of histories that caused an overwhelming popularity, favored by the cinematographic industry. There are two entities in dermatology that might be related to the origin of the leyend; the erythropoyetic protoporfiria, an authosomic dominant disease causing varioliform lesions in sun-exposed areas, which causes sun light intolerance; and the congenital erythropoyetic porfiria, a recessive linked congenital disease caused by an enzyme defect in the co-synthetase of uroporfirinogen III, described with erythrodonce, porfirinuria, photosensitivity with phototoxic burns, developing in some cases a sinister and deformed aspect of the patients

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