AGMINATE SPITZ NEVI ARISING ON HYPERPIGMENTED PATCHES

Authors
HERD RM ALLAN SM BIDDLESTONE L BUXTON PK MCLARAN KM
Citation
Rm. Herd et al., AGMINATE SPITZ NEVI ARISING ON HYPERPIGMENTED PATCHES, Clinical and experimental dermatology, 19(6), 1994, pp. 483-486
Citations number
36
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases
Journal title
Clinical and experimental dermatology → ACNP
ISSN journal
03076938
Volume
19
Issue
6
Year of publication
1994
Pages
483 - 486
Database
ISI
SICI code
0307-6938(1994)19:6<483:ASNAOH>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
In 1948 Dr Sophie Spitz described criteria that distinguished juvenile melanoma from malignant melanoma.(1) Since then the cases of eruptive Spitz naevi have been reported arising on normal skin, on lightly pig mented patches and on hypopigmented patches. There are only 12 reports of Spitz naevi arising on hyperpigmented patches:(2-12) we describe h ere three further cases, all on the arms of children, seen in our depa rtment in a single year.