Isolated straight hair nevus in a White child.

Lucie RaultFanny Morice-PicardIsabelle SvahnEtienne GontierAlexia EyraudAlain Taieb

Published in: Pediatric dermatology (2019)

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.

Keyphrases

electron microscopy
mental health
high resolution
low birth weight
mass spectrometry
preterm infants
gestational age