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[A variant of xeroderma pigmentosum: two cases of pigmented xerodermoid]
Z Somos1, I Schneider, I Raskó
1Pécsi Orvostudományi Egyetem Bórgyógyászati Klinika.
Orvosi Hetilap
|August 7, 1994
Abstract:
Two patients (sister and brother) of pigmented xerodermoid are presented: the character of clinical signs (phothosensitivity, poikilodermia, keratoses and keratomas, furthermore in the brother the squamous cell epithelioma of left thigh), according to them the case history (appearance of precancerous conditions and carcinoma in early adult life) made the disease suspicious to a variant of xeroderma pigmentosum. A DNA reparation test was also carried out, which confirmed the above clinical diagnosis in both patients.