Gorlin syndrome

Name sometimes used for the LEOPARD syndrome which Dr.

Robert J.

Gorlin and colleagues recognized and reported in the medical literature in 1969. A oral pathologist and clinical geneticist at the University of Minnesota, Bob Gorlin (1923-) delineated many of the now-known craniofacial and deafness syndromes.

Gorlin syndrome I is the nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome, inherited as an autosomal dominant trait, and characterized by a broad face and an extraordinary predisposition to basal cell carcinoma, a skin cancer.

See: LEOPARD syndrome.