Neurocutaneous Disorders Phakomatoses and Hamartoneoplastic Syndromes
Neurocutaneous diseases are a wide group of conditions that affect the nervous system but appear as lesions of the skin. Some of the more common entities have variable forms of expression that can confuse the diagnosis; for the rare conditions it is diffi
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Martino Ruggieri Ignacio Pascual-Castroviejo Concezio Di Rocco (Eds.)
Neurocutaneous Disorders Phakomatoses and Hamartoneoplastic Syndromes
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Martino Ruggieri Institute of Neurological Science, National Research Council, Catania, Italy
Ignacio Pascual-Castroviejo University Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain
Concezio Di Rocco Institute of Neurosurgery, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
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Martino Ruggieri is First Researcher in Paediatrics at the Institute of Neurological Science of the Italian National Research Council and at the Department of Paediatrics of the University of Catania, Italy and Associate Professor of Paediatrics (board certified, 2006). He graduated at the University of Catania and completed his postgraduate training at the Departments of Medical Genetics and Paediatrics, Churchill and John Radcliffe Hospitals, University of Oxford, UK and of Neurology and Neurogenetics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. He trained on neurocutaneous disorders along with professors Lorenzo Pavone in Catania, Italy and Susan M. Huson in Oxford, UK. His postgraduate thesis was on the neurological manifestations of hypomelanosis of Ito and his PhD thesis on the different forms of neurofibromatosis. He is the International Deputy Editor of the Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury and the International Associate Editor (Paediatric Neurology) of Child’s Nervous System. He is editor of a textbook of general paediatric neurology (in Italian). He currently runs in Catania, Italy a clinical and research programme devoted to neurocutaneous diseases. Research interests include the clinical manifestations of the different forms of neurofibromatosis in childhood, mosaic neurocutaneous phenotypes and paediat
