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Hypomelanosis of Ito and severe sensorineural deafness
J P Fryns1, A M Dereymaeker, H Van Den Berghe
1Centre for Human Genetics, University of Leuven, Belgium.
Genetic Counseling (Geneva, Switzerland)
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
In this report we describe an 8-year-old boy of Algerian origin with profound sensorineural deafness and skin pigmentation anomalies consistent with the diagnosis of hypomelanosis of Ito. On the basis of this observation the etiologic heterogeneity of this condition is discussed.