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BLOCH-SULZBERGER syndrome or incontinentia pigmenti is characterised by a disturbance of skin pigmentation associated with lesions of the eyes, teeth, nails and skeleton. Pedigree data are suggestive of X-linked dominant inheritance with lethality in the male (see Sulzberger, p. 163).
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Beighton, P., Beighton, G. (1997). BLOCH, Bruno. In: The Person Behind the Syndrome. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0925-9_14
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