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]
| Melanoma with features of a Spitz nevus | |
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| Other names | Spitzoid melanoma |
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| Spitzoid melanoma | |
| Specialty | Dermatology  |
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edit- ^ 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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