MALIGNANT INVASIVE PLAQUE-TYPE BLUE NEVUS - A CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW

Citation
U. Wlotzke et al., MALIGNANT INVASIVE PLAQUE-TYPE BLUE NEVUS - A CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW, Hautarzt, 46(12), 1995, pp. 860-864
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases
Journal title
ISSN journal
00178470
Volume
46
Issue
12
Year of publication
1995
Pages
860 - 864
Database
ISI
SICI code
0017-8470(1995)46:12<860:MIPBN->2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first case of a malignan t, primary plaque-type blue naevus in a 61-year-old male. Two biopsy s pecimens had been examined within 13 years, and revealed a common and cellular blue variant as a precursor. Locally invasive growth and regi onal lymph node swelling were present, but these alone could not confi rm malignancy before evaluation of all clinical and histopathological features, as they are known to occur with benign cellular blue neavi. The recent literature and our case indicate that there is a malignant potential in every histological and clinical variant of blue naevus.