title: [Melanoacanthoma (author's transl)].
abstract: A 87-year-old Caucasian women had a recurrent pigmented tumor on the back. Histologically, the lesion was interpreted as being a melanoacanthoma. It was characterized by a proliferation of unpigmented basaaloid cells with aggregates of large prickle cells, forming small horn pearls; furthermore the tumor contained numerous large dendritic cells with large amounts of melanin granules. A short review of the literature is followed by the discussion of the relationship between melanoacanthoma and irritated seborrheic keratosis.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008544:Melanocytes; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D010212:Papilloma / Q000473:pathology*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*
vernacular_title: Mélano-acanthome