title: Surviving male with incontinentia pigmenti: a case report.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School Dental Care Service, Department of Health, Hong Kong. fsdc@dh.gov.hk
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: C K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Drummond
mesh_terms: 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