Surviving male with incontinentia pigmenti: a case report.
Incontinentia pigmenti, or Block-Sulzberger Syndrome, is an X-linked dominant disorder with characteristic skin, hair, eye and tooth abnormalities. It is classically considered a male-lethal disorder with recurrent miscarriages of male foetuses. A few cases of surviving males with incontinentia pigmenti have been reported in the medical literature. This article reports the medical and dental findings of a boy diagnosed with incontinentia pigmenti.
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School Dental Care Service, Department of Health, Hong Kong. fsdc@dh.gov.hk
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Drummond
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D000848:Anodontia / Q000145:classification; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007180:Incisor / Q000002:abnormalities; D007184:Incontinentia Pigmenti / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D007621:Karyotyping; D008297:Male; D017741:Survivors