Mélanocytose oculopalpébrale ou naevus d’Ota

Mélanocytose oculopalpébrale ou naevus d'Ota

Le naevus d'Ota ou naevus fusco-caeruleus ophtalmo-maxillaris est une hyperpigmentation gris bleutée, voire brunâtre ou ardoisée unilatérale du visage dans le territoire cutané des 1ère et 2ème branches du nerf trijumeau. Il est plus fréquemment retrouvé chez les Asiatiques et les Noirs, rare chez les Européens. Les femmes sont près de cinq fois plus susceptibles d'être touchées que les hommes....

Becker's naevus associated with connective tissue naevus.

Sir, Becker's naevus or Becker's melanosis is a relatively common disorder, which appears as a hyperpigmented, hypertrichotic patch located mainly on the trunk (1). Becker's naevus has been associated with various soft tissue and bony structural anomalies, such as hypoplasia of the ipsilateral breast, pectoralis major muscle, leg, arm and contralateral breast, spina bi®da, and pectus carinatum ...

Mucinous Naevus: A Rare Variant of Connective Tissue Naevus

Mucinous naevus (MN) is a type of benign hamartomatous cutaneous mucinoses characterized by deposition of excessive amounts of mucin in the superficial dermis in a diffuse pattern with absence of collagen and elastic fibres in the mucinous areas. It may be associated with features of connective tissue naevus of proteoglycan type [1]. There is paucity of literature regarding this interesting ent...

Naevus of Ota.

THE naevus of Ota is characterized by benign mesodermal melanosis of the skin of the face with pigmentation of the eye and its adnexa. It is probably more familiar to the dermatologists. Pusey (1916) was the first to describe the association of scleral and facial pigmentation in a young Chinese student. Later, in Japan, Ota and Tanino (1939) reported, under the name of naevus fusco-caeruleus ma...

Dysplastic melanocytic naevus syndrome.