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  • Title: Congenital cerebriform melanocytic naevus with cutis verticis gyrata.
    Author: Pai VG, Rao GS.
    Journal: Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol; 2002; 68(6):367-8. PubMed ID: 17657008.
    Abstract:
    Congenital melanocytic naevus is hamartomatous or non-neoplastic proliferation of abnormal mixture of tissue's or non-neoplastic proliferation of abnormal mixture of tissue's normal components. Cutis verticis gyrata is hypertrophy with parallel or gyrate folds of skin of scalp. We report a young man who presented to us with hair loss on the back of the head and increased growth of hair over the upper back since birth. A biopsy proved the diagnosis of congenital melanocytic naevus.
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