A previously well 71-year-old woman with no prior history of malignant skin cancer was
referred to our dermatology clinic because of a large, pedunculated, vegetating lesion in her …

Blue nevus is a type of dermal melanocytosis and has a variety of clinicopathological
characteristics. A few particular variants are generally accepted as discrete …

B, Histopathological features of this combined nevus showing discrete, noncontinuous
lentiginous proliferation of melanocytes in the matrix epithelium above a dermal pigmented …

© 2007 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. of melanoma or similar nevi was
reported. Clinical examination revealed a group of approximately 20 bluebrown to slate gray …

Unusual or atypical melanocytic nevi can be confused with malignant melanoma. The
authors present two cases of an unusual variant of blue nevus that were misdiagnosed …

A 38-year-old woman presented to clinic with a solitary 6.5-3 4-mm sharply demarcated
ivory-white papule on her left temple of unknown duration (Fig 1). The lesion had a smooth …

Blue nevus represents an aberrant collection of functioning benign dermal melanocytes. Its
malignant degeneration is rare and is regarded as a form of malignant melanoma. We report …

Blue nevus, also referred to as blue neuronevus, blue moles, and dermal melanocytomas,
represents a form of melanocytic nevus resulting from arrested melanocytes deep within the …

While the 3 clinically described variants of blue nevi may be distinguished histologically,
other pathologic distinctions have been made among these categories of blue nevi …

Blue nevus and its variants typically present as pigmented lesions. Dermal melanin is
responsible for coloration and is an expected histologic finding. Herein, we report 20 cases …