All issues > Volume 31(5); 1988

Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1988;31(5):641-647. Published online May 31, 1988.

A Case of Incontinetia Pigmenti Associated with Convulsions.

Young Ok Suh¹, Gyun Woo Lee¹, Un Ki Yoon¹, Ji Sub Oh¹, Kee Suck Suh², Sang Tae Kim²

¹Department of Pediatrics, Wallace Memorial Baptist Hospital, Busan, Korea
²Department of Dermatology, Kosin Medical College, Busan, Korea

Received: August 22, 1987;  Accepted: December 20, 1987.

Abstract

Incontinentia pigmenti is a complex hereditary syndrome in which vesicular, verrucous and pigmented cutaneous lesions are associated with developmental defects of the eye, skeletal system and central nervous system. A case of incontinentia pigmenti associated with convulsions, Block-Sulzberger type, is presented with a review of related literatures. The patient was a 40 day-old female infant with convulsions and verrucous, dark brown pigmented lesions on the trunk and extremities. Diagnosis was made by the characteristic clinical, laboratory and histopathologic findings.

Keywords :Incontinentia pigmenti, Block -Sulzberger type, Convulsions