title: Spongiotic changes in melanocytic nevi.
abstract: We report eight patients in whom one or more pigmented melanocytic nevi developed a halo of inflammation characterized histologically by spongiotic dermatitis. This change was not related to involution of any of them. One of these pigmented lesions was thought clinically to be a malignant melanoma.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009508:Nevus, Pigmented / Q000473:pathology*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*