Dermatoporosis: Standardizing Mandarin Terminology and Primary Care Screening

Dermatoporosis—a chronic skin fragility syndrome in older adults characterized by skin atrophy, pseudoscar formation, and dissecting hematomas—remains substantially underrecognized in primary care and geriatric practice. First systematically described by Kaya and Saurat in 2007,1,2 the condition lacks standardized non-English terminology, a gap that limits clinical education, cross-cultural research, and timely diagnosis in Mandarin-speaking East Asian health care systems serving over 1 billion people.