1. Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome in a black child
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Dirk M. Elston, Kay A. Johnston, Scott D. Barnes, John P. McPhillips, and Jenifer Hall
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Male ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,genetic structures ,Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome ,Black People ,Nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome ,Dermatology ,Left posterior ,Diagnosis, Differential ,Maxilla ,Alveolar ridge ,Humans ,Medicine ,Keratocyst ,Child ,business.industry ,Tooth, Impacted ,medicine.disease ,Molar ,Odontogenic ,stomatognathic diseases ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Odontogenic Cysts ,Exotropia ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Orbit ,Jaw Diseases ,Orbit (anatomy) - Abstract
Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome (NBCCS) is rare in black persons. We describe an 11-year-old black boy with NBCCS who presented with exotropia and a painful, expanding, cystic mass in the left posterior alveolar ridge. Further examination revealed odontogenic keratocysts with palmar and plantar pitting. Less than 5% of reported patients with NBCCS are black. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a black patient with NBCCS presenting with exotropia and an impacted molar displaced into the orbit by an odontogenic keratocyst.
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- 1998
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