Blue nevus with satellitosis mimicking malignant melanoma.
Blue nevus rarely develops a malignant melanoma. The loss of the regular border and the development of satellite lesions are ominous clinical indicators of the malignant change. A case is presented in which both of these clinical features--irregular border and satellite lesions--were present, but no malignant change was observed histopathologically. To our knowledge, such a single nodule with satellite lesions mimicking malignant melanoma has not been described previously.
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Division of Dermatology, Hospital de Conxo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Vázquez Veiga
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Suárez Peñaranda
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D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology*; D018329:Nevus, Blue / Q000473:pathology*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*