Table 1: Lentiginoses: differential diagnosis and main clinical manifestations
Disease |
Clinical Manifestations |
Peutz-Jeghers syndrome |
Lentigines, hamartomatous gastrointestinal polyps, gastrointestinal and non gastrointestinal cancer |
Normal variant |
Only lentigines |
Carney complex |
Lentigines, myxomas, schwannomas, pituitary adenoma, Sertoli cell tumors, endocrine overactivity |
Leopard syndrome |
Lentigines, abnormalities of genitalia, ocular hypertelorism, deafness, electrocardiographic conduction abnormalities, retardation of growth. |
Laugier-Hunziker syndrome |
Lentigines, other pigmented lesions |
Bannayan-Ruvalcaba-Riley sybdrome |
Lentigines (penis), macrocephaly, mental retardation |
Arterial dissections and lentiginosis syndrome |
Lentigines, dissecting aneurysms, connective tissue defects |