(a.) Resembling a naevus or naevi; as, naevoid elephantiasis.
Example Sentences:
(1) A flat pigmented lesion is usually of obvious naevoid origin, and the problem is whether early malignant change has occurred.
(2) In addition, 1 subject with both disorders has 2 young daughters with the naevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome.
(3) The multiple naevoid lesions on the skin were identified as basal cell carcinoma in two cases.
(4) The naevoid basal cell syndrome, also called Gorlin's syndrome, is a dysembryoplasia akin to the phakomatoses and which may affect the skin, the bones, the nervous system, the eyes, the endocrine glands and the genitalia.
(5) We describe a patient with multiple areas of circumscribed naevoid hypertrichosis on the trunk and limbs who also had lipodystrophy at some affected sites.
(6) Naevoid hypertrichosis is an unusual congenital disorder consisting of a solitary circumscribed area of terminal hair growth which is not associated with any other systemic abnormalities.
(7) The other patient had bilateral nodular fibromas suggesting the possibility of naevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome although broader manifestations are lacking at present.
(8) A patient with unilateral naevoid basal-cell-carcinoma syndrome (NBCCS, Gorlin's syndrome) provided a unique opportunity to compare the radiation sensitivity of fibroblasts from the affected and unaffected sides of the same individual.
(9) A patient with the naevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome (NBCCS) is reported in whom non-aggressive neoplasms developed predominantly on the right side of the body.
(10) Naevoid bundle hair is thought to be an atavistic hair growth pattern.
(11) The Gorlin (naevoid-basal-cell-carcinoma) syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder characterised by multiple naevoid basal-cell carcinomas, recurrent odontogenic keratocysts, skeletal anomalies, intracranial calcification, and developmental malformations.
(12) Blaschko's lines are the pattern assumed by many different naevoid and acquired skin diseases on the human skin and mucosae.
(13) linear sebaceous naevus, unilateral naevoid telangiectasia); many of the acquired skin diseases (e.g.
(14) A raised lesion is likely to be a highly malignant melanoma or a lesion of non-naevoid cells.
(15) Discriminant analysis showed that the presence of dust-like melanin, irregular naevoid nests, markedly increased junctional activity and melanocytic nuclei equal or larger in size than overlying keratinocyte nuclei were the most discriminating features.
(16) The naevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome is described in a 43-year-old male.
(17) Many of the naevoid skin conditions are lifelong (e.g.
(18) X-ray changes and histological documentation, in two patients with the syndrome of naevoid basiliomas.
(19) Histologically, alongside naevoid cell structures were seen epithelioid to anaplastic cells a striking wealth of plasma cells, which were in places so numerous as the melanoma cells and diffusely or like streets infiltrated them.
(20) We believe that the eruption is true psoriasis, occurring in an unusual naevoid distribution.
Naevus
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Dysplastic naevus syndrome (DNS) is frequently observed in association with familial melanoma and xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), but the role of UV-light in the development of DNS has not been elucidated.
(2) This feature can be found in several dermatoses and particularly in lichen striatus and acantholytic linear naevus.
(3) Mean naevus numbers were greater in young than in older adults, and in females than in males.
(4) The mean total body naevus count was 115 in the cases and 67 in the controls.
(5) Analysing the cases according to Clark's levels and Breslow's index, a decrease in the naevus-melanoma association was seen with tumour progression, suggesting that advanced tumours may overgrow pre-existing nevus cells, appearing as de novo melanomas.
(6) A bone scan and red blood cell scan in the rare epidermal naevus syndrome, associated with multiple haemangiomas of the bone and hypophosphataemic osteomalacia in a 20-year-old man are reported.
(7) The activities of 27 enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism and the proportions of lactate dehydrogenase isoenzymes were determined in epidermis, in superficial epitheliomas and in several solid tumours biopsied from a patient with basal-cell naevus syndrome.
(8) One of the causes of twenty nail dystrophy of childhood may be a localized tissue malformation, analogous to inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal naevus.
(9) This is particularly true for skin lesions related to the vascular system (e.g., livedo racemosa, spider naevus).
(10) Two hundred moles were examined histologically and the degree and type of epidermal change was recorded and correlated with the arrangement, density and type of naevus cells present and with the clinical presentation.
(11) The clinical, histological and histogenetic aspects of naevus follicularis keratosus (NFK) ("naevus comedonicus") are reported.
(12) Doubt is cast also upon the validity of the concepts of a dysplastic naevus and a dysplastic naevus syndrome.
(13) Secondly, a study in Canadian school children revealed significantly higher naevus counts in subjects with numerous or severe episodes of sunburn in the previous 5 years.
(14) There is some doubt as to whether naevus pilus is identical with naevus-on-naevus or lentiginous naevus en mottes.
(15) An immunohistological evaluation of the diagnosis of naevus-associated melanoma was also performed on the basis of specimens from 89 melanocytic lesions.
(16) The case of a 5-month-old black female child with a linear sebaceous naevus syndrome and multiple congenital anomalies is presented.
(17) We report on the clinical and pathological features of three patients (two girls and one boy aged 6, 12 and 11 years respectively) from the St Laurentius hospital (Roermond, Netherlands) with melanoma of the skin, in whom the lesions histologically resembled the more frequently occurring spindle and epithelioid cell naevus (SE naevus).
(18) The authors report a case of extensive verrucous epidermal naevus of the face in a 15 year old Senegalese boy.
(19) The patient had extensive cutaneous naevus involving the left side of the body and consisting of naevus flammeus, hemangioma cavernosum, and naevus verrucosus.
(20) The difference in naevus count between the exposed and the protected area was larger in patients than in controls, p less than 0.001.