MATERIAL Two EGYPTIAN skeletons of the Dynastic Period are described: each shows anomalies compatible with the diagnosis of the basal cell naevus syndrome. They are in the Egyptian osteological collection of the Istituto di Antropologia, University of Turin (Cat. Nos. E225 and E 235), where one of us (M.I.S.) was carrying out research on an Italian Government scholarship in 1967. A curious and ...

Sai Ying Pun Dermatology Clinic, 3/F, Sai Ying Pun Jockey Club Clinic, 134 Queen’s Road West, Hong Kong A young lady presented with a recalcitrant linear scaly plaque on her right leg since infancy. The lesion showed partial response to cryotherapy. Histology reported inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal naevus (ILVEN) and porokeratosis at her age 8 and 19 respectively. The final diagnosis i...

OBJECTIVE (a) To determine whether children given chemotherapy for haematological malignancy have significantly more melanocytic naevi than age matched children in the local population; (b) to establish whether any observed variation in naevus counts from normal is seen at the start of maintenance chemotherapy. DESIGN Follow up of 29 consecutive children starting maintenance chemotherapy, wit...

AIM Inflamed juvenile conjunctival naevi (IJCN) are often erroneously suspected to be malignant because of rapid growth. Their clinical and histopathological features have not been characterised in series of patients. The aim of the study is to characterise IJCN clinically and histopathologically. METHODS This is a retrospective non-randomised clinicopathological study. All patients younger t...

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The Spitz nevus, also known as benign juvenile melanoma or a nevus of epitheloid and spindle cells, was first described by Sophie Spitz in 1948 and is most common in children and adolescents. They can present in three different ways: solitary nodular, multiple grouped, and multiple disseminated. The great majority of lesions are solitary, nodular, and are present in children and adolescents (57...