Angelman later described his choice of the title "Puppet Children" to describe these cases as being related to an oil painting he had seen while vacationing in Italy:

The history of medicine is full of interesting stories about the discovery of illnesses. The saga of Angelmans syndrome is one such story. It was purely by chance that nearly thirty years ago (e.g. [sic], circa 1964) three handicapped children were admitted at various times to my childrens ward in England. They had a variety of disabilities and although at first sight they seemed to be suffering from different conditions I felt that there was a common cause for their illness. The diagnosis was purely a clinical one because in spite of technical investigations which today are more refined I was unable to establish scientific proof that the three children all had the same handicap. In view of this I hesitated to write about them in the medical journals. However, when on holiday in Italy I happened to see an oil painting in the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona called ... a Boy with a Puppet. The boys laughing face and the fact that my patients exhibited jerky movements gave me the idea of writing an article about the three children with a title of Puppet Children. It was not a name that pleased all parents but it served as a means of combining the three little patients into a single group. Later the name was changed to Angelman syndrome.
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Epidemiology
Transient neonatal pustular melanosis occurs in as much as 15% of black newborns. [3] but in less than 1% of white newborns. [2]

See also
List of cutaneous conditions

References

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4. Ferrándiz C, Coroleu W, Ribera M, Lorenzo JC, Natal A (1992). "Sterile transient neonatal pustulosis is a precocious form of erythema toxicum neonatorum". Dermatology. 185:18–22. 5. Mebazaa A, Khaddar-Kort R, Cherif M, Mokni S, Haouet A, Osman B (2011). "Transient pustular eruption in neonates". Archives de Pediatrie. 18 (3) 291–293.