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Congenital agminated melanocytic nevus - case report
Agminated nevus is a cluster group of melanocytic nevi confined to a localized area of the body. There are many pigmented lesions described in the literature as agminated, such as blue nevi, multiple lentigines and Spitz nevi, but only a few cases of congenital agminated melanocytic nevi have been d...
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Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3875981/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24346910 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20132137 |
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author | da Rocha, Camila Roos Mariano Grazziotin, Thaís Corsetti Rey, Maria Carolina Widholzer Luzzatto, Laura Bonamigo, Renan Rangel |
author_facet | da Rocha, Camila Roos Mariano Grazziotin, Thaís Corsetti Rey, Maria Carolina Widholzer Luzzatto, Laura Bonamigo, Renan Rangel |
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description | Agminated nevus is a cluster group of melanocytic nevi confined to a localized area of the body. There are many pigmented lesions described in the literature as agminated, such as blue nevi, multiple lentigines and Spitz nevi, but only a few cases of congenital agminated melanocytic nevi have been described. We report a case of a male child who presented with congenital agminated nevi, emphasizing the importance of physical examination, dermoscopy, histopathological evaluation, differential diagnosis and follow up to rule out the possibility of dysplastic or malignant changes. |
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spelling | pubmed-38759812014-01-08 Congenital agminated melanocytic nevus - case report da Rocha, Camila Roos Mariano Grazziotin, Thaís Corsetti Rey, Maria Carolina Widholzer Luzzatto, Laura Bonamigo, Renan Rangel An Bras Dermatol Case Report Agminated nevus is a cluster group of melanocytic nevi confined to a localized area of the body. There are many pigmented lesions described in the literature as agminated, such as blue nevi, multiple lentigines and Spitz nevi, but only a few cases of congenital agminated melanocytic nevi have been described. We report a case of a male child who presented with congenital agminated nevi, emphasizing the importance of physical examination, dermoscopy, histopathological evaluation, differential diagnosis and follow up to rule out the possibility of dysplastic or malignant changes. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3875981/ /pubmed/24346910 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20132137 Text en ©2013 by Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report da Rocha, Camila Roos Mariano Grazziotin, Thaís Corsetti Rey, Maria Carolina Widholzer Luzzatto, Laura Bonamigo, Renan Rangel Congenital agminated melanocytic nevus - case report |
title | Congenital agminated melanocytic nevus - case report
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title_full | Congenital agminated melanocytic nevus - case report
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title_fullStr | Congenital agminated melanocytic nevus - case report
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title_full_unstemmed | Congenital agminated melanocytic nevus - case report
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title_short | Congenital agminated melanocytic nevus - case report
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title_sort | congenital agminated melanocytic nevus - case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3875981/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24346910 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20132137 |
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