Precocious puberty in a boy with a widespread linear epidermal naevus.
A 7-year-old boy with a systematized verrucous epidermal naevus, multiple pigmented naevocytic naevi and precocious puberty is described. The possible basis for this previously unreported association of abnormalities is discussed.
Moss
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Department of Dermatology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
Parkin
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JM
Comaish
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JS
D002648:Child; D006257:Head / Q000002:abnormalities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009508:Nevus, Pigmented / Q000150:complications*; D011378:Prognathism; D011629:Puberty, Precocious / Q000150:complications*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*