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Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims Syndrome

  • Rare congenital neurocutaneous disorder
  • Type of epidermal nevus syndrome
  • linear or systematized nevus sebaceus typically involving the scalp or face
  • Coloboma
  • Strabismus
  • 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