Saeed Bin Ayaz, Sumeera Matee, Uzma Bashir, Riffat Malik.
Primary non-essential cutis verticis gyrate: Report of a case.
J Postgrad Med Inst Jan ;32(02):216-9.

Cutis verticis gyrata (CVG) is a rare transformation of the scalp characterized by ridges and furrows resembling surface of the brain. It has primary and secondary types. Patients with primary CVG have normal skin and does not have an underlying pathological process. It is further subdivided into non-essential CVG and essential CVG based on the presence or absence of ophthalmological abnormalities or neuropsychiatric problems such as mental retardation, cerebral palsy, schizophrenia or epilepsy. The secondary CVG is always a manifestation of an underlying inflammatory, neoplastic or a systemic disorder. We report here a case of cerebral palsy in a 16-year-old boy who presented with fourteen months? history of progressive deformity of head and face and was diagnosed as primary non-essential CVG.

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