eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | nevus of ota |
| Comorbidity | C0086543|cataract |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 22132016 | It has also been successfully treated by q-switched ruby, alexandrite and nd: yag laser.111415 the q-switched lasers can selectively destroy the melanosomes and melanocytes that are responsible for pigmentation.16 the lesions are usually asymptomatic but rare instances of malignant melanoma arising from the lesions have been reported, usually along with the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve.16–18 different disorders such as sturge-weber syndrome, klippel-trenaunay syndrome, neurofibromatosis, multiple haemangiomas, spinocerebellar degeneration, ipsilateral deafness, and congenital cataract have been associated with nevus of ota.4 our patient was asymptomatic when she first reported to us and continued to be so since the past one and half years. |
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