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Neurocutaneous Disorders

Neurocutaneous Disorders

Christos P. Panteliadis | Christian Hagel | Ramsis Benjamin

(2016)

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Abstract

Neurocutaneous syndromes and hemangiomas encompass a substantial proportion of congenital or hereditary disorders, and present themselves through variable clinical features.

Though often complex and multi-systemic, these disorders can mostly be diagnosed by simple visual inspections and strong clinical expertise.

The purpose of this book is to compile in a single volume a comprehensive review of the historical perspective, the clinical features, the current knowledge concerning the pathogenesis, and the diagnostic and therapeutic strategies associated with these challenging disorders.

Strong emphasis throughout is given on the biochemical, molecular, and genetic basis of these syndromes. The international editorial team have drawn upon contributions from colleagues, and from fully referenced information from thousands of articles, thus providing the reader with an outstanding up-to-date resource for the diagnosis and treatment of neurocutaneous disorders.


Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Front Cover Cover
Neurocutaneous Disorders I
Copyright II
Foreword (second edition) III
Foreword (first edition) IV
Editors and contributing authors V
Dedication VII
Table of contents VIII
Introduction X
1 Historical note X
2 The spectrum of neurocutaneous disorders XI
3 Development of the neural crest XI
4 The book’s purpose XII
Bibliography XIII
A - General considerations 1
1 - General aspects of aetiology, diagnostics and therapy 3
1.1 Genetics of neurocutaneous syndromes 5
1.1.1 Neurofibromatosis 1 5
The NF1 gene 5
NF1 mutations 6
NF1 gene function 6
NF1 gene mutations are responsible for classical neurofibromatosis 1 and other phenotypes 7
Loss of heterozygosity and Knudson's two-hit hypothesis in neurofibromatosis 1 8
1.1.2 Neurofibromatosis 2 9
The NF2 gene 9
NF2 mutations 9
NF2 gene function 9
1.1.3 Tuberous sclerosis 10
TSC1 and TSC2 mutations 10
TSC1 and TSC2 gene function 11
Contiguous gene deletion syndrome involving TSC2 and ADPKD1 12
1.1.4 Sturge-Weber syndrome (Encephalofacial angiomatosis) 12
1.1.5 Ataxia-teleangiectasia (Louis-Bar syndrome) 12
1.1.6 Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome 13
VHL mutations 13
Gene function 14
1.1.7 Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome (Gorlin-Goltz syndrome) 14
1.1.8 Neurocutaneous melanosis 14
1.1.9 Incontinentia pigmenti 15
Hypomelanosis of Ito, IP1 15
Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome (Classic or familial incontinentia pigmenti, IP2) 15
1.1.10 Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome 16
1.1.11 Proteus syndrome 16
1.1.12 Linear nevus sebaceous syndrome 16
1.1.13 Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) and Bloom syndrome 16
1.1.14 Cowden disease and Lhermitte-Duclos disease 17
1.1.15 Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba or Bannayan-Zonana syndrome 17
1.1.16 Encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis 17
1.1.17 PHACE syndrome 17
1.1.18 CHILD syndrome 17
1.1.19 Ichthyosis and ichthyosis-like disorders (Chanarin-Dorfman syndrome) 18
1.1.20 Steroid sulfatase and multiple sulfatase deficiency 18
1.1.21 Sjögren-Larsson syndrome (SLS) 18
1.1.22 KID and HID syndrome 18
1.1.23 Malignant atrophic papulosis (Degos disease) 19
1.1.24 Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome) 19
1.1.25 Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis 19
1.1.26 Fabry disease 19
1.1.27 Databases and links 20
1.2 Molecular genetics and molecular biology of the NF1 gene 26
Structure of the NF1 gene 26
NF1 gene promoter region 26
NF1 3' untranslated region (3' UTR) 26
NF1 gene expression 26
Alternative splicing of the NF1 gene 27
NF1 pseudogenes 27
Neurofibromin: the NF1 gene product 27
The GAP related domain 28
The phospholipid-binding NF1-Sec-PH module 28
Additional neurofibromin interactions 28
The germline mutational spectrum of the NF1 gene 28
Somatic NF1 mutation as a first hit resulting in NF1 mosaicism 29
Somatic NF1 mutations as a “second hit” in NF1 associated neoplasias 29
Molecular diagnosis of NF1 30
NF1 gene evolution 30
Genotype-phaenotype relationships 30
Modifying genes in neurofibromatosis 1 31
Atypical forms of NF1 31
1.3 Type 2 segmental manifestation of neurocutaneous syndromes 37
1.3.1 General considerations 37
1.3.2 Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) 38
1.3.3 Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) 39
1.3.4 Legius syndrome 40
1.3.5 Tuberous sclerosis 40
1.3.6 PTEN hamartoma syndrome (Cowden disease included) 40
1.3.7 Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome (Gorlin syndrome) 41
1.4 Neuro-Imaging in Neurocutaneous Disorders 42
1.4.1 Neurofibromatosis type 1 42
Brain findings 43
Optic gliomas 43
Imaging of bright areas 44
Non-optic glial tumours 45
Other CNS and skull findings 46
Orbital plexiform neurofibroma 47
Spine findings 47
Skeletal-dural abnormalities 47
Neoplasms 48
1.4.2 Neurofibromatosis type 2 48
Cranial nerve Schwannomas 48
Meningiomas 49
Spine findings 50
Schwannomatosis 50
1.4.3 Tuberous sclerosis 50
Central nervous system manifestations 50
Visceral manifestations 52
1.4.4 Sturge-Weber syndrome 53
1.4.5 Von Hippel-Lindau disease 55
CNS haemangioblastoma 55
Endolymphatic sac tumour 56
Visceral manifestations 56
1.4.6 Ataxia telagiectasia (Louis-Bar syndrome) 57
1.4.7 Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome) 57
1.4.8 Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome 58
1.5 Neuropathology of neurocutaneous disorders 63
1.5.1 Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) 63
1.5.2 Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) 64
1.5.3 Tuberous sclerosis complex 66
1.5.4 Sturge-Weber syndrome 67
1.5.5 Ataxia-telangiectasia (Louis-Bar syndrome) 67
1.5.6 von Hippel-Lindau disease 68
1.5.7 Naevoid basal cell carcinoma (Gorlin-Goltz syndrome) 68
1.5.8 Linear naevus sebaceous syndrome 69
1.5.9 Lhermitte-Duclos disease and Cowden disease 69
1.5.10 Menkes disease 69
1.5.11 Refsum disease 70
1.5.12 Marinesco-Sjögren syndrome 70
1.5.13 Incontinentia pigmenti 71
1.5.14 Lipoid proteinosis 71
1.5.15 Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis 72
1.5.16 Familial systematized epidermal naevus syndrome 72
1.5.17 Encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis 72
1.5.18 Neurocutaneous melanosis 73
1.5.19 Chediak-Higashi syndrome 73
1.5.20 Cerebello-Trigeminal-Dermal-Dysplasia 74
1.5.21 Ichthyosis follicularis, alopecia, and photophobia syndrome 74
1.5.22 Fucosidosis 74
1.5.23 Xeroderma pigmentosum/Cockayne syndrome complex 75
1.5.24 Fabry's disease 75
1.5.25 Dyskeratosis congenita 76
1.5.26 Oculocerebrocutaneous syndrome (Delleman syndrome) 76
1.5.27 PHACE syndrome 77
1.5.28 Proteus syndrome 77
1.5.29 Hypomelanosis of Ito 77
1.5.30 Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome 78
1.5.31 Sjögren-Larsson syndrome 78
1.6 Ocular manifestations of neurocutaneous syndromes 82
1.6.1 Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1) 82
1.6.2 Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2) 84
1.6.3 Tuberous sclerosis 86
1.6.4 Sturge Weber Syndrome 86
1.6.5 Von Hippel-Lindau disease 88
1.6.6 Ataxia-telangiectasia 89
1.7 Neurosurgical management of neurocutaneous disorders 93
1.7.1 Neurofibromatosis (NF) 93
Clinical Characteristics 93
Management 94
1.7.2 Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) 96
Clinical Characteristics 96
Management 96
1.7.3 Sturge-Weber Disease 97
Clinical Characteristics 97
Management 98
1.7.4 Angiomatosis of the retina and cerebellum (Von Hippel-Lindau Disease) 98
Clinical Characteristics 99
Management 100
1.7.5 Neurocutaneous melanosis (NCM) 100
1.7.6 Conclusion 101
B - Specific disorders 105
2 - Developmental malformations 107
2.1 Sturge-Weber syndrome 109
2.1.1 Epidemiology 109
2.1.2 Genetics 109
2.1.3 Clinical characteristics 110
Skin Involvement 110
Eye involvement 110
Brain involvement 111
Endocrine involvement 111
2.1.4 Pathology 112
2.1.5 Diagnosis 113
2.1.6 Therapy 113
2.1.7 Prognosis 115
2.2 Ataxia-Telangiectasia (Louis-Bar syndrome) 119
2.2.1 Pathogenesis-Genetics (see the chapter on Neuropathology and Genetics) 119
2.2.2 Clinical characteristics 120
2.2.3 Diagnosis 121
2.2.4 Therapy 122
2.2.5 Prognosis 122
2.3 Hypomelanosis of Ito (Incontinentia pigmenti achromians) 124
2.3.1 Clinical characteristics 124
2.3.2 Therapy 126
2.4 Incontinentia pigmenti (Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome) 127
2.4.1 Pathogenesis 128
2.4.2 Clinical characteristics 128
Cutaneous involvement 128
Neurological involvement 129
Visual involvement 130
2.4.3 Therapy 131
2.5 Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome (Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome) 133
2.5.1 Clinical characteristics 133
2.5.2 Therapy and prognosis 136
2.6 Epidermal naevus syndrome and Linear naevus sebaceous syndrome 138
2.6.1 Clinical characteristics 139
Cutaneous involvement 139
Neurological involvement 139
2.6.2 Epidermal naevus syndromes (ENS) 140
2.6.3 Diagnosis 141
2.6.4 Therapy and prognosis 141
2.7 Neurocutaneous melanosis 142
2.7.1 Pathophysiology 143
2.7.2 Clinical characteristics 144
2.7.3 Neurologic involvement 144
2.7.4 Therapy and prognosis 146
2.8 Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome) 148
2.8.1 Clinical characteristics 148
2.8.2 Pathogenesis 149
2.8.3 Diagnosis 149
2.8.4 Therapy 150
2.8.5 Prognosis 150
2.9 Cowden disease and Lhermitte-Duclos disease 151
2.9.1 Clinical characteristics 151
2.10 Cutaneomeningospinal angiomatosis (Cobb syndrome) 153
2.10.1 Clinical characteristics 153
2.10.2 Diagnosis 154
2.10.3 Therapy 154
2.10.4 Prognosis 154
2.11 Cutis marmorata telangiectatica congenita (Van Lohuizen's syndrome) 155
2.11.1 Clinical characteristics 155
2.12 Encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis (Haberland syndrome) 157
2.12.1 Clinical characteristics 157
2.12.2 Diagnosis 158
2.12.3 Therapy 159
2.13 LEOPARD syndrome (multiple lentigines; Lentiginosis profusa) 160
2.13.1 Clinical characteristics 161
2.13.2 Diagnosis 162
2.13.3 Management 162
2.14 MIDAS syndrome (Microphthalmia with linear skin defects) 164
2.15 Oculocerebrocutaneous Syndrome (Delleman syndrome) 165
2.16 Oro-facio-digital syndrome 166
2.16.1 Clinical characteristics 166
2.17 PHACE syndrome 168
2.17.1 Pathogenesis 168
2.17.2 Clinical characteristics 169
2.17.3 Involvement of the nervous system and others 170
2.17.4 Diagnosis 171
2.17.5 Therapy 172
2.18 Proteus syndrome 173
2.18.1 Clinical characteristics 174
2.18.2 Therapy and prognosis 175
2.19 Wyburn-Manson-Syndrome 176
2.19.1 Clinical characteristics 177
2.20 Cerebello-trigemino-dermal (Gómez-López-Hernández syndrome) 178
2.20.1 Clinical characteristics 178
2.21 Vascular tumours (haemangiomas) 179
2.21.1 Introduction 179
2.21.2 Epidemiology 179
2.21.3 Clinical characteristics 180
2.21.4 Diagnosis and differential diagnosis 181
2.21.5 Therapy 183
1. Cryotherapy 183
2. Laser therapy 184
3. Plastic surgery treatment 184
4. Systemic propranolol treatment 185
5. Topical propranolol treatment 186
6. Other drug treatment options 187
2.21.6 Special types of vascular tumours 188
Segmental haemangiomas in the “beard area” 188
Haemangiomatosis 188
2.21.7 Rapid involuting congenital haemangioma (RICH) 188
Non involuting congenital haemangioma (NICH) 188
Haemangiomas in association with syndromes 188
Possible combined malformations in PHACE(S)-syndrome are 188
Possible combined malformations in PELVIS-syndrome are 189
Vascular tumours with histological specifics and/or tendency to develop Kasabach Merritt syndrome 189
Vascular tumours acquired after birth 190
3 - Tumour suppressor/DNA-repair disorders 193
3.1 Neurofibromatosis 1 and 2 194
3.1.1 Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) (von Recklinghausen disease) 194
History of NF1 194
Epidemiology 195
Diagnostic criteria 195
Differential diagnostics of NF1 195
Segmental NF1 196
Clinical characteristics of NF1 in children 196
Clinical characteristics of NF1 in adults 202
3.1.2 Neurofibromatosis II (NF2) 206
History of NF2 206
Epidemiology 207
Genetics 207
Diagnostic Criteria 207
Geno-phenotype correlation 208
Clinical characteristics 208
Differential diagnosis 211
Management and therapy 211
Management of patients with incomplete expression of symptoms 212
Medical treatment 213
3.2 Tuberous sclerosis (Bourneville disease) 220
3.2.1 Definition 220
3.2.2 History 220
3.2.3 Epidemiology 220
3.2.4 Genetics (see also separate chapter on Genetics) 220
3.2.5 Signalling pathways affected in TSC 221
3.2.6 Clinical characteristics 221
3.2.7 Diagnosis 227
3.2.8 Therapy 228
3.2.9 Prognosis 230
3.3 Angiomatosis of the Retina and the Cerebellum (von Hippel-Lindau disease) 236
3.3.1 Clinical characteristic 237
Haemangioblastoma 237
Phaeochromocytoma and other tumours 238
Retinal angiomas 238
3.3.2 Diagnosis 239
3.3.3 Therapy 240
3.3.4 Prognosis 241
3.4 Naevoid basal cell carcinoma (GORLIN-GOLTZ syndrome) 243
3.4.1 Clinical characteristics 244
3.4.2 Diagnosis 244
3.4.3 Therapy and Prognosis 245
3.5 Cockayne syndrome 247
3.5.1 Clinical characteristics 247
3.6 Xeroderma pigmentosum (Kaposi dermatosis) 250
3.6.1 Clinical characteristics 250
Cutaneous involvement 250
Ocular involvement 250
Neurologic involvement 251
Other Neoplasia 251
3.6.2 Pathogenesis 251
3.6.3 Differential diagnosis 252
3.6.4 Diagnosis 252
3.6.5 Therapy 252
3.6.6 Prognosis 253
Bibliography 253
4 - Defects of enzymes and structural proteins 255
4.1 Cerebrotendinous xanthromatosis 256
4.1.1 Clinical characteristics 256
4.1.2 Pathogenesis 257
4.1.3 Diagnosis/differential diagnosis 257
4.1.4 Therapy 258
4.2 Chédiak-Higashi syndrome 259
4.2.1 Clinical characteristics 259
4.2.2 Pathogenesis 259
4.2.3 Diagnosis 260
4.2.4 Therapy 260
4.2.5 Prognosis 261
4.3 CHILD syndrome 261
4.3.1 Pathogenesis 262
4.3.2 Clinical characteristics 262
4.3.3 Diagnosis 263
4.3.4 Therapy 264
4.4 Dorfman – Chanarin syndrome 265
4.5 Ehlers-Danlos syndrome 267
4.5.1 Clinical characteristics 267
Classic EDS 268
Hypermobility EDS 268
Kyphoscoliosis EDS 268
Dermatosparaxis EDS 269
4.5.2 Pathogenesis 269
4.5.3 Therapy 270
4.6 Ichthyoses – Trichothiodystrophy – TAY syndrome 271
4.6.1 Ichthyoses 271
4.6.2 Trichothiodystrophy 273
4.6.3 Clinical characteristics 273
4.6.4 Tay syndrome 274
4.7 Rud syndrome 277
4.7.1 Clinical characteristics 277
4.8 HID/KID syndrome 279
4.9 Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome 280
4.9.1 Clinical characteristics 281
4.9.2 Therapy and prognosis 282
4.10 Lipoid Proteinosis (Urbach-Wiethe syndrome) 284
4.10.1 Clinical characteristics 284
4.11 McCune-Albright disease 285
4.11.1 Clinical characteristics 285
Endocrinopathy 285
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia 285
Café-au-lait spots 286
4.11.2 Pathogenesis 286
4.11.3 Diagnosis 286
4.11.4 Therapy 287
4.11.5 Prognosis 287
4.12 Menkes syndrome (Kinky hair disease; Tricholiodystrophy) 288
4.12.1 Pathophysiology 289
4.12.2 Clinical characteristics 290
4.12.3 Diagnosis 291
4.12.4 Therapy 291
4.13 Refsum disease (Heredopathis atactica polyneuritiformis) 293
4.13.1 Clinical characteristics 294
4.13.2 Diagnosis 294
4.13.3 Therapy and Prognosis 295
4.14 Sjögren-Larsson syndrome 296
4.14.1 Pathogenesis 297
4.14.2 Clinical characteristics 297
Neurological involvement 298
4.14.3 Diagnosis 298
4.14.4 Therapy 299