Background: The neurocutaneous disorders, also known as the phakomatoses, are a group of hereditary conditions that have neurological manifestations as well as benign cutaneous lesions; both tissue types share a common embryologic origin. Neurofibromatosis: Neurofibromatosis (NF) is the most common neurocutaneous disorder. Although there are as many as 8 distinct forms of NF, the term is most c...

BACKGROUND Sturge-Weber syndrome is a congenital neurocutaneous disorder characterized by facial port-wine stain, leptomeningeal angioma, and neurological disorders. Sturge-Weber syndrome can coexist with other disorders in a few patients; however, muscular abnormalities have not been reported in patients with Sturge-Weber syndrome. CASE PRESENTATION A Chinese girl presented with extensive po...

We present a patient with neurocutaneous syndrome, status prior resections for cervical schwannomas and median as well as radial nerve schwannomas. This is a 57-year-old female with neurocutaneous syndrome presenting at 42 years of age with unilateral vestibular schwannoma. Genetic testing was negative but on clinical criteria neurofibromatosis-2 (NF-2) or schwannomatosis were considered.1 She ...

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...