Nevus Sebaceus With Novel HRAS Sequence Variant Mutation Misdiagnosed as Alopecia Areata

Cutis. 2023 May;111(5):E30-E32. doi: 10.12788/cutis.0780.

Authors

Diane A Fernandes¹, Kim Sang¹, Leonard Sperling¹

Affiliation

¹ Dr. Fernandes is from the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Dr. Sang is from US Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan. Dr. Sperling is from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Sperling also is from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda.

PMID: 37406309
DOI: 10.12788/cutis.0780

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Alopecia Areata* / diagnosis
Alopecia Areata* / genetics
Diagnostic Errors
Humans
Mutation
Nevus*
Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras) / genetics
Skin Neoplasms*

Substances

HRAS protein, human
Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)

Supplementary concepts

Diffuse alopecia