While examining a client, the practitioner notices large, flat, cutaneous pigmentations. They are a uniform light brown with sha
rply demarcated edges. He uses a Wood lamp to better detect the lighter spots. The practitioner knows that the pigmentations may be a component of which disorder?
Answer: Von Recklinghausen disease( neurofibromatosis 1)
Explanation:
It is a complex multi system human disorder which is caused due to mutation of gene on chromosome number 17.
it has many common symptoms such as brown-red colored spots in the colored region of eye. The population suffering from this geneticdisorder have higher rate of cancer as compared to that of the population in general.
Another symptom of neurofibromatosis is fat and large cutaneous pigmentation on the skin.
