neurocutaneous melanosis (ncm) is a rare, congenital non-hereditary syndrome, characterized by multiple pigmented nevi. we report the radiologic findings of a newborn who had extensive cutaneous melanotic nevus with satellite lesions in the brain. ultrasound showed multiple echogenic foci in the cerebral parenchyma. subsequent mri confirmed these lesions as characteristic deposits of melanin. t...

In 1985 a paper in this journal analysed an apparent cluster of multiple myeloma in South Cumbria, England. The study was prompted by reports of seven cases of multiple myeloma in Walney Island. This is a small community adjacent to a shipyard that builds nuclear submarines and is 15 miles away from the Sellafield Nuclear Processing Plant. These seven cases occurred over the seven year time per...