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Neurocutaneous melanosis with the Dandy-Walker malformation: a possible rare pathoetiologic association

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We report a neonate in whom clinical and radiologic studies revealed features of both neurocutaneous melanosis and a Dandy-Walker malformation. We suggest that the association of these two conditions is perhaps not chance.

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  1. R. J. Wolf

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  1. Section of Interventional Neuroradiology, Department Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, P. O. Box 208042, 06520-8042, New Haven, CT, USA

    J. C. Chaloupka

  2. Interventional Neuroradiology Service, Departments of Radiology and Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    J. C. Chaloupka

  3. Section of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    J. C. Chaloupka, R. J. Wolf & P. K. Varma

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Chaloupka, J.C., Wolf, R.J. & Varma, P.K. Neurocutaneous melanosis with the Dandy-Walker malformation: a possible rare pathoetiologic association. Neuroradiology 38, 486–489 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00607285

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