An 11-year-old boy presented with raised pigmented lesion over the scalp since 10 years. Parents gave history of hairless yellowish plaque present over the scalp at birth which gradually increased to present size to take cerebriform appearance. There was no history of trauma. All routine hematological investigations were normal. No systemic and developmental defect was noted. X-ray skull, eye a...

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During the normal development of skin, pluripotential cells give rise to keratinocytes, sebaceus glands, hair follicles, apocrine glands and eccrine glands. A hamartoma, or an abnormal mixture of a tissue’s normal components, results from an error in development, among which some show malignant potential. We report two Chinese cases of giant congenital cutaneous hamartoma, a nevus sebaceus of J...

The nevus sebaceous of Jadassohn usually affects the face or scalp. It tends to evolve in three stages, and the final stage is characterized by the appearance of tumours. We present the case of a facial nevus sebaceous of Jadasshon in which a basal cell carcinoma developed. We also explore the diagnosis of this disease, which was established through dermoscopy, and propose using this technique ...