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Lipomatous melanocytic nevomatosis
Author(s) -
Cabrera H,
Gómez Ml,
García S
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of the european academy of dermatology and venereology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.655
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1468-3083
pISSN - 0926-9959
DOI - 10.1046/j.1468-3083.2002.00569.x
Subject(s) - medicine , congenital melanocytic nevus , lipomatosis , nevus , infiltration (hvac) , melanocytic nevus , dermatology , malignant transformation , pathology , melanoma , cancer research , physics , thermodynamics
Giant congenital melanocytic nevi (GCMN) are rare and occur in about one out of every 200 000–500 000 births. Their importance resides in the aesthetic alteration they produce and in the possibility of malignant transformation or in their association with nevi in the central nervous system as a distinctive syndrome: neurocutaneous melanoblastosis or nevomatosis, due to the fact that nervous system lesions are produced by infiltration of nevus cells. We present here a patient with a combination of GCMN with an outstanding lipomatosis located on the same area.