Giant congenital facial melanocytic nevus

Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevus (GCMNs) is mostly reported in area of trunk followed by limbs and head. Their incidence is <1:20,000 newborns It derives attention due to its association with malignant melanoma.The risk of developing malignant melanoma is between 5 to 10%.We report a case of tw...

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Autores principales: Meel, Rachna, Wadhwani, Meenakshi, Pushker, Neelam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Clinical Image
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6219340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30505119
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ojo.OJO_216_2017
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description Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevus (GCMNs) is mostly reported in area of trunk followed by limbs and head. Their incidence is <1:20,000 newborns It derives attention due to its association with malignant melanoma.The risk of developing malignant melanoma is between 5 to 10%.We report a case of twelve year old boy with hyperpigmented lesion on face.
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spelling pubmed-62193402018-11-30 Giant congenital facial melanocytic nevus Meel, Rachna Wadhwani, Meenakshi Pushker, Neelam Oman J Ophthalmol Clinical Image Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevus (GCMNs) is mostly reported in area of trunk followed by limbs and head. Their incidence is <1:20,000 newborns It derives attention due to its association with malignant melanoma.The risk of developing malignant melanoma is between 5 to 10%.We report a case of twelve year old boy with hyperpigmented lesion on face. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6219340/ /pubmed/30505119 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ojo.OJO_216_2017 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Oman Ophthalmic Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Giant congenital facial melanocytic nevus
title_full Giant congenital facial melanocytic nevus
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title_short Giant congenital facial melanocytic nevus
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6219340/
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