A Rare Case of Bilateral Inflammatory Linear Verrucous Epidermal Nevus
Inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus (ILVEN) is rare, mosaicism-induced linear inflammatory dermatoses with early childhood presentation and persistence for whole life in majority of cases. No definite gene or genetic locus has been nominated yet. Treatment is mostly aimed for relief of sym...
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| author | Yousuf Abd Mallick Nausheen Yaqoob |
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| description | Inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus (ILVEN) is rare, mosaicism-induced linear inflammatory dermatoses with early childhood presentation and persistence for whole life in majority of cases. No definite gene or genetic locus has been nominated yet. Treatment is mostly aimed for relief of symptoms and for cosmetic concerns.Here, authors are reporting a case of 6-year-old girl presented with history of extremely pruritic, erythematous, linear plaques following the lines of Blaschko over all 4 limbs, trunk and flexures since infancy.Clinical impression of bilateral ILVEN was confirmed by histopathology. No systemic abnormality was detected.Bilateral ILVEN is extremely rare entity and it should be documented whenever encounter.
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| spelling | doaj.art-71e971f561634924a55083901c0ccba32023-06-06T03:12:19ZengDow University of Health SciencesJournal of the Dow University of Health Sciences1995-21982410-21802020-12-0114310.36570/jduhs.2020.3.963A Rare Case of Bilateral Inflammatory Linear Verrucous Epidermal NevusYousuf Abd Mallick0Nausheen Yaqoob1Dermatology Unit¹/ Pathology Unit,² The Indus Hospital Karachi, PakistanPathology department, The Indus Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.Inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus (ILVEN) is rare, mosaicism-induced linear inflammatory dermatoses with early childhood presentation and persistence for whole life in majority of cases. No definite gene or genetic locus has been nominated yet. Treatment is mostly aimed for relief of symptoms and for cosmetic concerns.Here, authors are reporting a case of 6-year-old girl presented with history of extremely pruritic, erythematous, linear plaques following the lines of Blaschko over all 4 limbs, trunk and flexures since infancy.Clinical impression of bilateral ILVEN was confirmed by histopathology. No systemic abnormality was detected.Bilateral ILVEN is extremely rare entity and it should be documented whenever encounter. https://jduhs.com/index.php/jduhs/article/view/963histopathologymosaicismInflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus |
| spellingShingle | Yousuf Abd Mallick Nausheen Yaqoob A Rare Case of Bilateral Inflammatory Linear Verrucous Epidermal Nevus Journal of the Dow University of Health Sciences histopathology mosaicism Inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus |
| title | A Rare Case of Bilateral Inflammatory Linear Verrucous Epidermal Nevus |
| title_full | A Rare Case of Bilateral Inflammatory Linear Verrucous Epidermal Nevus |
| title_fullStr | A Rare Case of Bilateral Inflammatory Linear Verrucous Epidermal Nevus |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Rare Case of Bilateral Inflammatory Linear Verrucous Epidermal Nevus |
| title_short | A Rare Case of Bilateral Inflammatory Linear Verrucous Epidermal Nevus |
| title_sort | rare case of bilateral inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus |
| topic | histopathology mosaicism Inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus |
| url | https://jduhs.com/index.php/jduhs/article/view/963 |
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