This study assessed the use of sural neurocutaneous flaps to repair chronic ulcers in difficult-to-cover areas around the ankle and heel. Follow-up of the 14 patients included in this study ranged from 6 months to 3 years after their operation. Total flap loss occurred in two patients, both of whom had rheumatoid arthritis complicated by vasculitis. Partial flap loss occurred in three patients;...

The concept of neurocutaneous melanosis was described in 1948 by Van Bogaert [1] as a nonfamilial neuroectodermal dysplasia, but the first report of an individual with stigmata of neurocutaneous melanosis was made by Rokitansky [2] in 1861. The criteria to be met for diagnosis are large multiple pigmented skin nevi (more than 20 em in diameter) with an excess of melanotic cells in the leptomeni...

Introduction. The major medical concern with giant congenital melanocytic nevi CMN is high risk of developing cutaneous melanoma, leptomeningeal melanoma, and neurocutaneous melanocytosis. Case Report. A 30-year-old woman with a giant congenital melanocytic nevus covering nearly the entire right thoracodorsal region and multiple disseminated melanocytic nevi presented with neurological symptoms...

This review highlights the diagnostic criteria and neuro-ophthalmic symptoms and signs of the more commonly seen neurocutaneous disorders, including NF1 and NF2, tuberous sclerosis, VHL disease, Sturge-Weber disease, and AT. The distinct neuro-ophthalmic features in each of these hereditary and congenital disorders play an important role in clinical diagnosis.