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Hypomelanosis of Ito

What are the symptoms?

Associated abnormalities are thought to occur in approximately seventy per cent of patients with cutaneous lesions. These include:

Neurological problems (the most common) with:
Learning difficulties (see entry, Learning Disability)
Seizures
Hemimegalencephaly (asymmetric enlarged brain)
Visual problems (see entry, Vision disorders in childhood):
Retinal pigment abnormalities
Myopia
Night blindness
Detached retina
Orthopaedic problems:
Scoliosis
Hemihypertrophy (asymmetry of growth on either side of the body)
Precocious puberty (see entry, Premature Sexual Maturation)
Cardiac abnormalities (see entry, Heart defects).

Background | What are the causes?

Medical text written October 1999 by Professor Dian Donnai, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, UK. Last updated October 2006 by Dr Wayne Lam, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.

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