A Case of a Surviving Male Infant with Incontinentia Pigmenti |
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Authors: | Ji Young Song Chan Ho Na Byoung Soo Chung Kyu Cherl Choi Bong Seok Shin |
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Affiliation: | Department of Dermatology, Chosun University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea. |
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Abstract: | Incontinentia pigmenti (Bloch-Sulzberger''s disease) is an X-linked dominantly inherited disorder which is usually lethal in hemizygous males, but rarely found in male infants. It can be explained by the presence of an extra X chromosome (Klinefelter''s syndrome), hypomorphic mutations, and somatic mosaicism. We herein report a rare case of incontinentia pigmenti with typical course of skin manifestation in normal karyotype (46, XY) male infant. |
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Keywords: | Bloch-Sulzberger''s disease Incontinentia pigmenti |
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