Neurocutaneous Melanosis with the Dandy-Walker Malformation: a Possible Rare Pathoetiologic Association

Overview

Journal Neuroradiology

Specialties Neurology
Radiology

Date 1996 Jul 1

PMID 8837100

Citations 14

Authors

J C Chaloupka

R J Wolf

P K Varma

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Abstract

We report a neonate in whom clinical and radiologic studies revealed features of both neurocutaneous melanosis and a Dandy-Walker malformation. We suggest that the association of these two conditions is perhaps not chance.

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