Homogeneous blue pigmentation in dermatofibroma simulating a blue naevus.
A case with a pigmented skin lesion that was diagnosed as a blue naevus on clinical and dermoscopic grounds and histopathologically confirmed as a dermatofibroma is presented. By means of this case, we define dermatofibroma as a new exception for 'homogeneous blue pigmentation' on dermoscopy.
Ozdemir
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Department of Dermatology, Ege University Medical Faculty, Bornova-Izmir, Turkey.
Kilinc
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Akalin
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D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D018329:Nevus, Blue / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D012880:Skin Pigmentation