title: [Epidermal nevus syndrome (Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome) and early childhood cataract development].
abstract: The patient, now 14 years old, has been kept under observation since birth (and was the subject of a paper published in 1973 by Leyh and Loewel). She has cataract in both eyes, caused by intensive treatment with corticosteroids.
  
  
  RESULTS
  initially adenoma sebaceum, subsequently syringocystadenoma papilliferum. Plastic surgery was performed. With regard to visual development, the patient suffered first from deviations without fixation and now has a visual acuity of 0.25 with cataract lenses, with strabismus and nystagmus latens. Epilepsy and mental retardation have also been diagnosed.
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000473:pathology; D006607:Adenoma, Sweat Gland / Q000473:pathology; D000293:Adolescent; D002386:Cataract / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009506:Nevus / Q000473:pathology*; D012626:Sebaceous Gland Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013577:Syndrome; D014787:Vision Tests
vernacular_title: Epidermales Naevus-Syndrom (Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims-Syndrom) und frühkindliche Kataraktentstehung.