An otherwise healthy 17-month-old girl presented with a well-defined, yellow-orange oval plaque with alopecia on her left scalp since birth (Figure 1). It had been growing proportionately with her.

Her brave boy. Jana Kramer’s 4-year-old son Jace is recovering after undergoing surgery to have a nevus sebaceous birthmark removed. The One Tree Hill alum, 39, shared a photo of her son’s head before ...

Epidermal nevi are grouped by their clinical features, by the site of occurrence, and their extent of spread, but mostly by which epidermal cell predominates in the lesion. In some patients, multiple ...

The term "epidermal nevus syndrome" (ENS) is used for any of the various clinical entities which are distinctive in terms of their signs and symptoms, histopathology, and genetic composition. In most ...

A 57-year-old man presented with concerns about a new growth on his scalp. He was born with a birthmark on his scalp that had become bumpy over time, but over the previous year he had noticed the ...

Lichen striatus is a common entity that may be confused with an epidermal nevus. However, lichen striatus is not present at birth and is associated with spontaneous resolution over time. On histology, ...

Renowden SA, Squier M Unusual magnetic resonance and neuropathological findings in hemimegalencephaly: report of a case following hemispherectomy Dev Med Child Neurol 1994 36 357–369 ...

A 12-year-old girl presented with a tan plaque on her scalp that had gradually increased in size since birth, with a cerebriform appearance. Histologic findings showed papillomatous epidermal ...