Diseases

Incontinentia Pigmenti

A genodermatosis occurring mostly in females and characterized by skin changes in three phases - vesiculobullous, verrucous papillomatous, and macular melanodermic. Hyperpigmentation is bizarre and irregular. Sixty percent of patients have abnormalities of eyes, teeth, central nervous system, and skin appendages.

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Abstract

A genodermatosis occurring mostly in females and characterized by skin changes in three phases - vesiculobullous, verrucous papillomatous, and macular melanodermic. Hyperpigmentation is bizarre and irregular. Sixty percent of patients have abnormalities of eyes, teeth, central nervous system, and skin appendages.

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5 entry terms
  • Bloch-Siemens Syndrome
  • Bloch-Siemens-Sulzberger Syndrome
  • Bloch-Sulzberger Syndrome
  • Bloch Sulzberger Syndrome
  • Syndrome, Bloch-Sulzberger

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

multiple skin & other abnorm; do not confuse with INCONTINENTIA PIGMENTI ACHROMIANS see PIGMENTATION DISORDERS

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History Note

91(87); was see under PIGMENTATION DISORDERS 1987-90

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Previous Indexing

  • Pigmentation Disorders (1966-1986)

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  2. C16w.131w.831.580w
  3. C16w.320w.850w.420w
  4. C17.800w.621w.497w
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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Incontinentia Pigmenti. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007184. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007184
  2. Incontinentia Pigmenti. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incontinentia_pigmenti
  3. Incontinentia Pigmenti. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q884590