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Lucie Rault1, Fanny Morice-Picard1, Isabelle Svahn2
1Department of Dermatology and Pediatric Dermatology, National Reference Center for Rare Skin Diseases, INSERM U 1035, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
Abstract:
We report a 6-month-old girl born with a fronto-parietal patch of hair straighter than the remainder of the scalp hairs. We took a biopsy to rule out a congenital melanocytic nevus. We concluded after additional scanning electron microscopy study of the hair shafts that the lesion corresponds to a possible local mosaicism causing an isolated straight hair nevus phenotype.
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