Neurocutaneous Melanosis with Hydrocephalus and Dandy-Walker Variant

Neurocutaneous melanosis (NCM) is one of the rare, congenital, noninheritable phakomatoses characterized by the presence of large and/or multiple congenital melanocytic cutaneous nevi associated with intracranial leptomeningeal melanocytosis. NCM usually presents before 2 years of age. So far 302 ca...

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Autores principales: Sarwar, Mohammad, Tripathy, Laxminarayan, Jain, Harsh, Basu, Sunandan, Sengupta, Ashvini
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8751503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35071094
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_542_20
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author Sarwar, Mohammad
Tripathy, Laxminarayan
Jain, Harsh
Basu, Sunandan
Sengupta, Ashvini
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Tripathy, Laxminarayan
Jain, Harsh
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description Neurocutaneous melanosis (NCM) is one of the rare, congenital, noninheritable phakomatoses characterized by the presence of large and/or multiple congenital melanocytic cutaneous nevi associated with intracranial leptomeningeal melanocytosis. NCM usually presents before 2 years of age. So far 302 cases have been reported in literature. We report a case of NCM presenting with obstructive hydrocephalus and Dandy-Walker Variant in a young adult.
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spelling pubmed-87515032022-01-21 Neurocutaneous Melanosis with Hydrocephalus and Dandy-Walker Variant Sarwar, Mohammad Tripathy, Laxminarayan Jain, Harsh Basu, Sunandan Sengupta, Ashvini Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Neurocutaneous melanosis (NCM) is one of the rare, congenital, noninheritable phakomatoses characterized by the presence of large and/or multiple congenital melanocytic cutaneous nevi associated with intracranial leptomeningeal melanocytosis. NCM usually presents before 2 years of age. So far 302 cases have been reported in literature. We report a case of NCM presenting with obstructive hydrocephalus and Dandy-Walker Variant in a young adult. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8751503/ /pubmed/35071094 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_542_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Sarwar, Mohammad
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Jain, Harsh
Basu, Sunandan
Sengupta, Ashvini
Neurocutaneous Melanosis with Hydrocephalus and Dandy-Walker Variant
title Neurocutaneous Melanosis with Hydrocephalus and Dandy-Walker Variant
title_full Neurocutaneous Melanosis with Hydrocephalus and Dandy-Walker Variant
title_fullStr Neurocutaneous Melanosis with Hydrocephalus and Dandy-Walker Variant
title_full_unstemmed Neurocutaneous Melanosis with Hydrocephalus and Dandy-Walker Variant
title_short Neurocutaneous Melanosis with Hydrocephalus and Dandy-Walker Variant
title_sort neurocutaneous melanosis with hydrocephalus and dandy-walker variant
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8751503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35071094
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_542_20
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