title: A Filipino male with encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis (Haberland's syndrome).
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis (ECCL), also known as Haberland's Syndrome, is a sporadically occurring neurocutaneous syndrome with no gender or race predilection. ECCL patients present with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations, often in a unilateral distribution. The hallmark of ECCL is the nevus psiloliparus, a soft, bulging, lipomatous scalp lesion, with associated alopecia.
  
  
  METHODS
  We describe a case of a 2-month-old Filipino male with a soft, ill-defined mass with associated alopecia on the fronto-parietal scalp. Biopsy revealed findings consistent with a nevus psiloliparus. The patient also presented with a lipomatous nodule on the right temple, as well as choristomas and a coloboma on the right eye. He had no history of seizures and development was at par with age.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Recognition of ECCL is important in order to work-up the patient for concomitant problems, such as central nervous system and cardiac anomalies, and employ a multidisciplinary approach in the management of these patients.
authors.affiliation: Section of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH), Manila, Philippines;
authors.forename: Iris Alessandra S
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Pardo
authors.forename: Marie Eleanore O
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Nicolas
keywords: Haberland’s syndrome; alopecia; congenital hypotrichosis; encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis; newborn