Mongolian spot
Sign in to saveAlso known as Integument anomalies: [ichthyosis congenita] or [Darier's] or [keratosis follicularis] or [Meige's] or [Milroy's] or [Mongolian spots] or [pseudoxanthoma elasticum] or [congenital NOS], Mongolian Macula, Mongolian spot (disorder), Mongolian Blue Spot, Blue Sacral Spot, congenital dermal melanocytosis
benign, flat, congenital birthmark, prevalent among East, South, Southeast, North and Central Asian peoples, Indigenous Oceanians, and Amerindians
Key facts
- Other names
- Mongolian spot, Mongolian blue spot, congenital dermal melanocytosis, dermal melanocytosis
- Specialty
- Dermatology
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
228 papers- Reimagining the Terms Mongolian Spot and Sign.Cureus · 2021
- Extensive aberrant Mongolian spot.The Journal of dermatology · 1995
- Mongolian spots.Indian journal of dermatology, venereology and leprology · 2013
- Mongolian spot.Neonatal network : NN · 2003
- The Mongolian spot: a study of ethnic differences and a literature review.Clinical pediatrics · 1981
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Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Mongolian spot
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C3945
- health specialty
- pediatrics
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0011369
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
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Encyclopedic overview
A Mongolian spot, also known as a slate grey nevus or congenital dermal melanocytosis, is a benign, flat, congenital birthmark with wavy borders and an irregular shape. In 1883, it was described and named after Mongolians by Erwin Bälz, a German anthropologist based in Japan, who erroneously believed it to be most prevalent among his Mongolian patients. It normally disappears three to five years after birth and almost always by puberty. The most common color is blue, although they can be blue-gray, blue-black or deep brown.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mongolian spot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.