LATE, PAINFUL, SUBUNGUAL HYPERKERATOSIS IN INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI

Citation
P. Abimelec et al., LATE, PAINFUL, SUBUNGUAL HYPERKERATOSIS IN INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI, Pediatric dermatology, 12(4), 1995, pp. 340-342
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases",Pediatrics
Journal title
ISSN journal
07368046
Volume
12
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
340 - 342
Database
ISI
SICI code
0736-8046(1995)12:4<340:LPSHII>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
The postpubertal appearance of subungual, painful keratotic tumors is a rare feature of incontinentia pigmenti. A patient affected by incont inentia pigmenti developed subungual, painful, nontumoral, hyperkerato tic lesions of the hands at 10 years of age. The mildness of the subun gual lesions may be explained by the early stage of the disorder, but it is difficult to correlate the severity of the fingertip pain with t he absence of true tumoral swelling. To our knowledge this is the youn gest patient reported so far and the only one with a prepubertal expre ssion of this puzzling disorder.