Piebaldism
Last Updated: 2022-03-25
ICD11: -
Last Updated: 2022-03-25
Author(s): Navarini A.
ICD11: -
Morgan, 1786
White forelock
Genetic disease, autosomal dominant, mutation in KIT, SLUG genes.
Amelanotic macules, these are milky-white and irregularly bordered, sometimes also café-au-lait spots (with spherical melanomas).
Poliosis circumscripta (forelock, also eyebrows partially affected).
Hypomelanoe on the chin, dorsal neck, middle of the trunk, extremities (knees!).
Frontal (curl) as the most important symptom of the disease, trunk ventral may also be affected.
No melanin, no melanocytes in the lesions.
No healing to be expected.
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