ABSTRACT
La hipertricosis cubital es un aumento localizado de la densidad, longitud y espesor del vello. Es una entidad benigna con muy escasos pacientes descritos en la literatura médica (alrededor de medio centenar). La mitad de los casos descritos asocian otros defectos o malformaciones, y la otra mitad son problemas puramente estéticos. La pubarquia precoz en niñas se define como el inicio del vello púbico antes de los 8 años de edad. Se presenta a una paciente de 6 años con la asociación no descrita previamente de hipertricosis cubital y pubarquia precoz.
Hypertrichosis cubiti is a localized increase in hair density, length and thickness. It is an uncommon and benign entity with very few patients described in the medical literature (more or less than half a hundred). Half of the described patients associate other defects or malformations and the other half are purely aesthetic cases. Early pubarche in girls is defined as the onset of pubic hair before 8 years of age. We present a six-year-old patient with the association not previously described of hypertrichosis cubiti and precocious pubarche.
Subject(s)
Humans , Female , Child , Puberty, Precocious/diagnosis , Growth Disorders/diagnosis , Hypertrichosis/congenital , Puberty, Precocious/pathology , Growth Disorders/pathology , Hypertrichosis/diagnosis , Hypertrichosis/pathologyABSTRACT
Hypertrichosis cubiti, also named hairy elbows syndrome, circumscribed hypertrichosis in which a remarkable amount of long vellus hair is localized on the extensor surfaces of the upper extremities. We report a case of hairy elbows syndrome in a 12-year-old female patient, who was treated for short stature in pediatrics. She was referred to our department because of hypertrichosis of both elbows. Her height is 131cm, it is below 3 percentile of that of age. We could not find any physical abnormalities and other developmental disorders except short stature. But, Her intelligence is somewhat delayed comparative to that of age. She denied her family history about that. The literature on this subject is reviewed, and some clinical and etiopathogenic aspects are discussed.