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cutaneous melanocytic tumors
Thursday 1 July 2004
Digital cases
UI:1831 - dermal melanocytic nevus
BASAL MELANOCYTE PROLIFERATION:
lentigo simplex solar lentigo melanotic macule (labial and genital) PUVA lentigo lentiginous nevus
MELANOCYTIC NEVI:
common nevus (junctional, compound, intradermal) Meyerson nevus congenital nevus combined nevus inverted nevus recurrent nevus Halo nevus Spitz nevus (spindle and epithelioid cell nevus) pigmented spindle cell nevus (Reed nevus) deep-penetrating nevus (plexiform spindle cell nevus)
DERMAL MELANOCYTIC LESIONS (MELANOCYTOMAS):
Mongolian spot nevus of Ota, nevus of Ito blue nevus, cellular blue nevus dermal melanocyte hamartoma cutaneous neurocristic hamartoma
ATYPICAL MELANOCYTIC LESIONS:
dysplastic nevus (atypical nevus)
MALIGNANT MELANOCYTIC LESIONS:
malignant melanoma
- lentigo maligna
squamo-melanocytic tumor
See also
cutaneous tumors melanocytic tumors
References
Bastian BC, Olshen AB, LeBoit PE, Pinkel D. Classifying melanocytic tumors based on DNA copy number changes. Am J Pathol. 2003 Nov;163(5):1765-70. PMID: #14578177#
Bastian BC. Understanding the progression of melanocytic neoplasia using genomic analysis: from fields to cancer. Oncogene. 2003 May 19;22(20):3081-6. PMID: #12789284#
