Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims Syndrome

a.k.a Linear sebaceous nevus syndrome

  • Congenital neurocutaneous disorder
  • Subtype of epidermal nevus syndrome or “organoid nevus syndrome”
  • linear or systematized nevus sebaceus typically involving the scalp or face

Many of these findings are part of the larger syndrome grouping of epidermal nevus syndromes

  • Epibulbar (limbal) choristomas
    • often complex containing lacrimal gland, adipose, cartilage and neural tissue
  • Corneal dermoid
  • Anisocoria
  • Coloboma of eyelid, choroid and/or retina
  • Optic nerve hypoplasia or atrophy
  • Peripapillary staphyloma
  • Microphthalmia
  • Strabismus
  • Ptosis
  • Neurological
    • Seizures
    • Intellectual disability
    • structural brain defects
  • Skeletal Defects
  • Cardiovascular defects
  • Urogential defects
  • Lymphatic malformations
  • Somatic mutations of the genes in the RAS/MAPK pathway
    • Most commonly involved genes: HRAS, KRAS, NRAS
    • usually mutation found in the lesion not in the blood