2007
DOI: 10.1097/01.dad.0000187932.87103.4a
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Malignant Blue Nevus

Abstract: We report a 55-year-old Japanese patient with a malignant blue nevus (MBN) on the scalp. The patient had regional lymph nodes metastases at his first visit, and a distant cutaneous metastatic papule appeared on the back 1 year later despite therapeutic intervention. Histology of the primary tumor lacked a junctional component and showed a typically biphasic pattern in the degree of pigmentation similar to a cellular blue nevus (BN). One pattern showed nests of less-pigmented, oval-shaped cells with a fairly un… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

0
0
0

Year Published

2009
2009
2020
2020

Publication Types

Select...
4
1

Relationship

0
5

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 11 publications
references
References 12 publications
0
0
0
Order By: Relevance