FAMILIAL MULTIPLE NEVI FLAMMEI

1 March 1949

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology

Vol. 59 (3) , 343-345
https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1949.01520280095013

Abstract

Although vascular nevi are generally considered to be inherited,¹ pedigrees do no seem to have been published. Actually, the genetic background has been essentially derived from the study of the occurrence of these nevi in twins.² In particular, nevus flammeus has but rarely been reported to have been inherited. Siemens³ and Cockayne,⁴ in their comprehensive surveys on heredity in cutaneous diseases, cited but a single known instance in which nevus flammeus appeared in parent and child. Their reference was to Benedict,⁵ who described a family in which the mother had a large discontinuous portwine stain on the right side, involving the chest, arm and shoulder, while 1 of her 5 children presented a large portwine stain covering the right side of the chest and neck and the right arm. Strangely, even though nevus flammeus of the nape of the neck is seen in 5 per

Keywords

NEVI

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