Male patients with Bloch-Sulzberger incontinentia pigmenti (IP type II) are rare and more severely affected than their female counterparts, with a significant occurrence of sex chromosome aneuploidy. This document introduces a new male IP type II patient and reviews 48 males reported with IP. Twenty
Incontinentia pigmenti versus hypomelanosis of Ito: The whys and wherefores of a confusing issue
β Scribed by Happle, Rudolf
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 KB
- Volume
- 79
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
- DOI
- 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19980827)79:1<64::aid-ajmg14>3.0.co;2-k
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