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Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevi Successfully Treated with Combined Laser Therapy

Congenital melanocytic nevi are benign proliferations of cutaneous melanocytes that arise as a result of abnormal growth, development, or migration of melanoblasts. Clinically, the giant congenital nevus is greater than 20 cm in size, pigmented and often hairy. The risk of malignant melanoma for the...

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Autores principales: Sakhiya, Jagdish, Sakhiya, Dhruv, Patel, Mehul, Daruwala, Feral
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7001409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32055515
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_107_19
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author Sakhiya, Jagdish
Sakhiya, Dhruv
Patel, Mehul
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description Congenital melanocytic nevi are benign proliferations of cutaneous melanocytes that arise as a result of abnormal growth, development, or migration of melanoblasts. Clinically, the giant congenital nevus is greater than 20 cm in size, pigmented and often hairy. The risk of malignant melanoma for the giant nevi is almost 6%. Fifty percent of the melanomas develop by the age of 2 years and, 80% of the melanomas develop by the age of 7 years. Hence, early management is of paramount importance. Herein, we present a case of giant nevi along with a review of the literature in order to bring awareness among clinicians towards this rare albeit significant entity.
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spelling pubmed-70014092020-02-13 Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevi Successfully Treated with Combined Laser Therapy Sakhiya, Jagdish Sakhiya, Dhruv Patel, Mehul Daruwala, Feral Indian Dermatol Online J Case Report Congenital melanocytic nevi are benign proliferations of cutaneous melanocytes that arise as a result of abnormal growth, development, or migration of melanoblasts. Clinically, the giant congenital nevus is greater than 20 cm in size, pigmented and often hairy. The risk of malignant melanoma for the giant nevi is almost 6%. Fifty percent of the melanomas develop by the age of 2 years and, 80% of the melanomas develop by the age of 7 years. Hence, early management is of paramount importance. Herein, we present a case of giant nevi along with a review of the literature in order to bring awareness among clinicians towards this rare albeit significant entity. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7001409/ /pubmed/32055515 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_107_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Dermatology Online Journal 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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Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevi Successfully Treated with Combined Laser Therapy
title Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevi Successfully Treated with Combined Laser Therapy
title_full Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevi Successfully Treated with Combined Laser Therapy
title_fullStr Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevi Successfully Treated with Combined Laser Therapy
title_full_unstemmed Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevi Successfully Treated with Combined Laser Therapy
title_short Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevi Successfully Treated with Combined Laser Therapy
title_sort giant congenital melanocytic nevi successfully treated with combined laser therapy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7001409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32055515
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_107_19
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