Parry-Romberg syndrome is a rare neurocutaneous disorder of unknown origin. It is characterized by progressive facial hemiatrophy and frequently overlaps with a condition known as linear scleroderma 'en coup de sabre'. Neurological involvement is frequently described in these patients, including migraine, facial pain and epilepsy, which represent the commonest neurological conditions, sometimes...

Juvenile localized scleroderma (JLS) includes several subtypes including plaque morphea, linear scleroderma and the en coup de sabre type which affects face and head. The latter variety may involve the eye and the brain with various appearance and clinical complications.We describe the case of a 6-year-old boy who presented partial complex seizures, with status epilepticus, four months before t...

Sir, Hypertrichosis, an increase in non-androgen-modulated hair on the body, may be congenital or acquired, localized or generalized. It may be limited to cosmetic signi®cance or may represent a cutaneous sign of underlying systemic disease (1). There are a few reports of hypertrichosis on the indurated skin in melorheostotic scleroderma (2 ± 4). We describe here a 12-year-old Korean boy with l...

Hepatitis C virus has been associated with various skin conditions, such as porphyria cutanea tarda and lichen planus, as an example. The objective of this paper is based on the description of a case of localized morphea, which came years after the discovery of hepatitis C, as well as a discussion of possible relations between both diseases.

Results 70.5% of patients were females. CM (34.1%) and LM (34.1%) were the most frequently subtypes. Mean age at first symptoms was 7.7 years (Figure 1). Medium time between first signs/symptoms and diagnosis was 15.42 months. One patient with CM head-neck lesions had Parry-Romberg disease with neurological involvement. 50% of patients with head-neck LM had “coup de sabre” subtype, 25% of that ...

Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Sahara Hospital, Lucknow, India, 226010 [email protected] Scleroderma or progressive systemic sclerosis is diagnosed clinically by typical features of skin thickening, Raynaud’s phenomenon and visceral organ involvement, and serologically by distinct autoantibody subsets. These differentiate the disease into the ‘limited’ and ‘diffuse’ vari...

Linear scleroderma is a form of localized scleroderma that primarily affects the pediatric population. When it occurs on the scalp or forehead, it is termed "en coup de sabre". In the en coup de sabre subtype, many extracutaneous associations, mostly neurological, have been described. A patient with linear scleroderma en coup de sabre was noted to have ipsilateral brain cavernomas by magnetic r...