Background: Pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia (PEH), a histological mimic of squamous cell carcinoma, is an exuberant reactive epithelial proliferation that may be induced by a variety of infectious, traumatic, inflam...
The balloon-cell nevus was first described over 100 years ago. Since then, balloon-cell changes of melanocytes have been noted in numerous tumors, including melanoma, blue nevus, and Spitz nevus. Whether these changes...
Background: CD117, the receptor for kit-ligand, which is a growth factor for melanocyte migration and proliferation, has shown differential staining in various benign and malignant melanocytic lesions. The purpose of ...
Spitz naevi are usually solitary lesions. Multiple Spitz naevi are extremely rare and reported as widespread (disseminated) or grouped (agminated). We report two cases of multiple Spitz naevi and review their aetiolog...
Objective: To achieve a clinicopathologic classification of Spitz nevi by comparing their clinical, dermoscopic, and histopathologic features. Design: Eighty- three cases were independently reviewed by 3 histopatholog...
Spitz nevus is a benign melnocytic lesion with many histologic similarities to malignant melanoma. To our knowledge, a Spitz nevus with multiple satellite lesions has not been reported. This paperreports a case of Spi...