Aplasia cutis and ipsilateral congenital melanocytic naevus: An unusual association

Aplasia cutis congenita and amniotic band syndrome: an uncommon association.

To cite: Pimenta J, Lapa P, Ramos L. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2016218950 DESCRIPTION Amniotic band syndrome is an unusual clinical entity with a wide variety of presentations that include constriction rings, syndactyly and limb or digital amputations. 2 Aplasia cutis congenita is a rare congenital anomaly involving variant layers of the skin...

Aplasia cutis congenita

The patient was a female neonate bornprematurely at 36 weeks of gestation by a Cesareansection. During pregnancy, the mother had nohistory of fever, drug use, or X-ray exposure.The mother was gravida 2 and had no history ofabortion. Her first child was healthy. There wasno record of birth trauma. The perinatal historywas negative for intrauterine trauma, the use ofantithyroid medication, or mis...

Malignant melanoma arising from a small congenital melanocytic naevus.

A 29-year-old woman presented with a subcutaneous nodule within a pigmented macule on her left neck. The elliptic macule measured 1266 mm (Fig. 1), and had been present since birth, judging from her family’s statements. The subcutaneous nodule had gradually grown within the macule 12 months previously. The flesh colour around the black macule had changed into a blue tone occurring with the nodu...

Congenital melanocytic naevus with atypical pigment network on dermoscopy.

Proliferative nodule in small congenital melanocytic naevus after childhood.

© 2012 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-1186 Journal Compilation © 2012 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Congenital melanocytic naevi (CMNs) are divided into giant, medium-sized, and small types. Giant CMN measures more than 20 cm in maximal diameter, whereas small CMN measures less than 1.5 cm (1). The lifetime incidence of melanoma in giant CMN is estimated to be between 6.3% (2) ...