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Incontinentia Pigmenti: Case Report

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A case of a female newborn exhibiting characteristic cutaneous and neurologic findings with one-year follow-up is reported.
Abstract
Incontinentia pigmenti or Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome is a rare X-linked dominant disorder with characteristic skin, hair, eye, dental and neurologic abnormalities mostly affecting females. We report a case of a female newborn exhibiting characteristic cutaneous and neurologic findings with one-year follow-up.

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Systematic review of central nervous system anomalies in incontinentia pigmenti

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Incontinentia Pigmenti Misdiagnosed as Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infection.

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A 6-Month-Old Girl with Incontinentia Pigmenti Presenting as Status Epilepticus.

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Incontinentia Pigmenti; a Rare Multisystem Disorder: Case Report of a 10-Year-Old Girl.

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X-linked incontinentia pigmenti or Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome: a case report Incontinência pigmentar ligada ao X ou síndrome de Bloch-Sulzberger: relato de um caso

TL;DR: Incontinentia pigmenti is a rare X-linked genodermatosis that affects mainly female neonates as mentioned in this paper, which is a possible differential diagnosis when vesicu- lobullous and verrucous lesions are present in childhood.
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Utility of molecular studies in incontinentia pigmenti patients

TL;DR: Four families of IP are presented in whom molecular studies established an unequivocal diagnosis in the affected daughters, and showed two mothers to be carriers, thus allowing accurate genetic counselling and prenatal diagnosis.
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Incontinentia pigmenti in a newborn with NEMO mutation.

TL;DR: A Korean female baby is reported with IP confirmed by mutation analysis of NEMO gene, a rare X-linked dominant neuroectodermal multisystemic syndrome due to mutations in the gene for NF-κB essential modulator.
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Dental anomalies in two patients with incontinentia pigmenti.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that IP may present a broad variation of dental anomalies individually, and the characteristic finding of permanent anterior teeth with a longer crown and a shorter root found in both of the authors' IP patients may be worthy of consideration in the differential diagnosis of IP.
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Incontinentia pigmenti: a case report.

TL;DR: The oral and dental manifestations of an IP case in a Venezuelan pediatric patient showed macular pigmented lesions in her face, trunk, back, legs, and fingers as well as abnormal hair distribution, alopecia on the vertex, and hypoplasia of eyebrows.