Pediatrics Flashcards
Form of Oculocutaneous albinism with complete loss of pigment at birth, gray blue irides
Gene?
Other associated features?

OCA1a: TYR (absent); tyrosinase negative
Markedly decreased visual acuity
Increased risk of SCC
Form of oculocutaneous albinism with no pigmentation at birth, but develop some pigmentation over time
Both amelanotic and pigmented nevi
Associated complications?
OCA1b; TYR (decreased to 5-10% of normal); otherwise known as yellow mutant albinism
Milder ocular complications than OCA1a
Temperature sensitive variant (OCA1b TS): Functions only at cool sites
Where would the pigment be?
Most common form of oculocutaneous albinism
Africans
Light Brown Hair
Gray/Tan Irides
Other conditions with similar skin findings

OCA 2; (P gene; pink-eyed dilution)
Tyrosinase positive
1% of Prader-Willi and Angelman syndrome (mutation on 15q, has OCA2 gene)
Very Rare Oculocutaneous Albinism
Africa and New Guinea
Reddish-Brown skin and red hair
Blue-Brown Irides
OCA 3; TYRP1
OCA4
Population?
Clinical Presentation?
Gene?
Japan, 25% of OCA
Variable skin, similar to OCA2
solute carrier family 45; member 2 (SLC45A2); Formerly MATP
Oculocutaneous Albinism
What is the problem?
Which cutaneous malignancies are they at risk for?
Why?
abnormal melanin, melanosome biosynthesis and transport (skin, hair, eyes)
SCC (most common), BCC, and melanoma
They have normal number of melanocytes, but decreased melanin
What is this condition?
What is the gene mutation?
What are the characteristic changes in the affected cells?
What are associated systemic symptoms? (Hint three primary organ systems)

Chediak-Higashi
Oculocutaneous albinism (only slivery hair with eye)
Gene: LYST/CHS1
Impaired melanosomes (giant), platelet granules, giant PMN granules
Blood: Prolonged Bleeding Time; lymphoproliferative accellerated phase/HPS (death by age 10)
Neurological degeneration
Immunodeficiency: EBV, gingivitis, periodontitis

What is the name of this syndrome?
What are the types?
What are the genes associated with each type?
What are the systemic features of this disease?
Other Similar syndromes?

Griscelli (all AR)
Aberrant translocation of melanosomes along microtubules
Trichoscopy: large and irregularly spaced melanin
Normal granules, no giant melanosomes
GS1: (MYO5A) Neuro
GS2: (RAB27A) Immunodeficiency with HLH
GS3: (MLPH)) skin limited
Elejalde: Variant of GS1?
Puerto Rican with light hair, multiple bruises, who presents with progressive shortness of breath.
1) Disease?
2) Mutation?
3) What is the main problem?
4) Other systemic complications?
5) Most common cause of death?
1) Hermansky-Pudlak
2) AR (HPS1-HPS9)
3) Accumulation of ceroid lipofuscin
Disorder of lysosomal-related organelles (melanosomes, platelet dense granules)
4) Bleeding diathesis
Pale Irides: photophobia, strabismus, nystagmus
granulomatous colitis, progressive pulmonary fibrosis, cardiomyopathy, and renal failure
5) pulmonary fibrosis
Disease?
Inheritance?
Mutation?
Other Internal Sequelae?

Piebaldism
AD
c-KIT protooncogene or zinc finger (SNAI2, SLUG)
White forelock +/- adjacent leukoderma
No systemic involvement
What is the disease?
How many Types?
Mutations?
Characteristic features?

Waardenburg Syndrome
AD
white forelock, heterochromia irides, broad nasal root, and dystopia canthorum
WS1: PAX3
WS2: MITF (SNAI2)
WS3: PAX3
WS4: SOX10, EDNRB, EDN3
WS1: deafness (20-40%)
WS2: no dystopia canthorum, deafness common
WS3: Deafness + Upper limb abnormalities (hypoplasia, contracture, syndactyly)
WS4: WS1+ Hirschprungs
Child with large hyperpigmented patch on the side of the chest
Disease?
Inheritance?
Gene?
Systemic Manifestations?
Laboratory?
1) McCune-Albright
2) Non-inherited, post-zygotic, F>M
3) GNAS1
4) CALMS, polyostotic fibrous dyplasia, endocrine dysfunction
4) bone pain, visible skeletal deformit, fractures
Precocious puberty, hyperthyroidism, acromegaly, hypophosphatemic rickets, and infantile Cushing syndrome
Name of Disease?
Inheritance?
Gene?
Associated Findings?

Reticuate acropigmentation of Kitamura
AD (Japanese, rare)
ADAM10 (metaloproteinase and disintegrin)
lentigo-like hyperpigmented macules coalescing into a reticate pattern on the hands and feet
Palmoplantar its, abnormal dermatoglyphs
Histo: Increased melanin and melanocytes

Disease?
Inheritance?
Gene/Mutation?
Subtype?

Dowling-Degos disease
AD
keratin 5
Galli-Galli (also keratin 5, but acantholysis on histology)
Can also have comedone-like lesions, pitted perioral scars, EIC, and Hidradenitis Suppurativa
Name of disease?
Characteristic features?

Leiner’s disease
Seborrheic like dermatitis-> erythroderma
What is this syndrome?
What is the gene and inheritance?
What is the mneumonic?
What are the associated systemic manifestations?

Noonan with multiple lentigines
PTPN11/SHP2, RAF1 (AD)
L(entigines), E(ECG), O (Ocular hypertelorism), P(ulmonic Stenosis), A(bnormal genitalia), R(etardating of growth), D(eafness)
Lentigines develop at 4-5 years of age
HCM
short stature, skeletal-mandibular prognatihism
Important: granular cell myoblastoma
Diagnosis?
Gene? Inheritance?
Associated Systemic Manifestations?

Carney Complex (LAMB/NAME)
PRKAR1A (AD)
Multiple lentigines, ephelides, blue nevi (epithelioid); all fade with time, skin myxomas
Atrial myxomeas (50-80%)
Endocrine neoplasms (adrenocortiacal, pituitary, thyroid)
Sertoli cell tumor (aka testicular cancer)
Psammomatous melanocytic schwannoma
Breast ductal carcinoma
Diagnosis?
Gene? Inheritance?
Systemic Manifestations?

Peutz-Jeghers
STK11/LBK, AD
Pigmented macules on lips, digits, and other mucosa by age 20
GI polyps
93% develop GI cancer before age 65, but also lung and breast cancer
Diagnosis?
Gene, Inheritance?
Systemic Manifestations?

Laugier-Hunziker
Acquired!
Skin: pigmented macules on lips, buccal mucosa, genitals, melanonychia in 50%
No increased cancer risk
Diagnosis?
Gene? Inheritance?
Skin Findings?
Systemic Manifestations

Cronkhite-Canada
Acquired
Older (age ~59, M>>F)
Lentigines of the hands, feet, and buccal mucosa
Nail Dystrophy, Alopecia
Intestinal polyposis-> Protein losing enteropathy and chronic diarrhead
These hyperpigmented macules appeared within the first year of life, and are only where pictured, no other body areas are affected.
Diagnosis?
Gene? Inheritance?
Systemic Manifestations?

Centrofacial Lentiginosis (Touraine’s Syndrome)
Unknown, AD
Developmental delay, Seizures,
Mitral valve stenosis
Dwarfism, Skeletal abnormalities
Endocrine dysfunction
Diagnosis?
Gene/Inheritance?
Skin Manifestations?
Systemic Manifestations?

Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba
PTEN, AD -> failure of programmed cell death
Penile lentigines, lipomas
angiokeratomas, high flow vascular anomalies
macrocephaly, long philtrum, thin upper lip
facial acanthosis nigricans and verruca like lesions
Systemic: Developmental delay, intestinal polyps, hashimoto thyroiditis,
increased risk of malignancy?? (More evidence for CS)
Disease?
Population?
Gene/ Inheritance?
Systemic Involvement?

Dyschromatosis Symmetrica Hereditaria
Japanese/Chinese
ADAR (SRAD), AD
RNA-specific adenosine deaminase
Presents by 6yo with dyschromia, hyper and hypopigmented macules on face and dorsal aspect of the extremities
No known systemic disease
Disease?
Gene/Inheritance?
Sytemic Involvement

dyschromatosis universalis hereditaria
Japanese
ABCB6 (ATP binding cassette subfamily B), AD/AR
Generalized or torso dominant brown macules with scattered hypopigmented macules with a mottled appearance
Can have nail pterygium
Reported: short stature, idiopathic torsion dystonia, x-linked ocular albinism, neurosensory hearing loss




















































































