Melanoma with features of a Spitz nevus
Medical condition
| Melanoma with features of a Spitz nevus | |
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| Other names | Spitzoid melanoma |
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| Spitzoid melanoma | |
| Specialty | Dermatology  |
Melanoma with features of a Spitz nevus, also known as a Spitzoid melanoma, is a cutaneous condition characterized histologically with tissue similar to a spitz nevus and with overall symmetry and a dermal nodule of epithelioid melanocytes that do not mature with progressively deeper dermal extension.[1]
See also
- Melanoma
- Spitz nevus
- List of cutaneous conditions
References
- ^ Rapini, Ronald P.; Bolognia, Jean L.; Jorizzo, Joseph L. (2007). Dermatology: 2-Volume Set. St. Louis: Mosby. p. 1752. ISBN 1-4160-2999-0.
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Skin cancer of nevi and melanomas
- Mucosal melanoma
- Superficial spreading melanoma
- Nodular melanoma
- lentigo
- Lentigo maligna/Lentigo maligna melanoma
- Acral lentiginous melanoma
- Amelanotic melanoma
- Desmoplastic melanoma
- Melanoma with features of a Spitz nevus
- Melanoma with small nevus-like cells
- Polypoid melanoma
- Nevoid melanoma
- Melanocytic tumors of uncertain malignant potential
melanocytic nevus
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