ALLMedicine™ Blue Nevi Center

Sep 28th, 2022 - Primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease (PPNAD) is a pituitary-independent, primary adrenal form of hypercortisolism characterized by (a) resistance to suppression by dexamethasone and abolition of the normal diurnal rhythm of cortisol se...

May 15th, 2022 - Carney complex is a rare familial multineoplastic syndrome predisposing to endocrine and nonendocrine tumors due to inactivating mutations of PRKAR1A, leading to perturbations of the cAMP‒protein kinase A signaling pathway. Skin lesions are the mo...

Apr 20th, 2022 - Blue nevi are benign, melanocytic neoplasms that show a range of clinical and morphologic patterns and include common/dendritic, cellular, and atypical cellular subtypes. Like other nevi, they most commonly occur in skin but can occasionally invol...

Mar 24th, 2022 - Pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma is a rare cutaneous melanocytic proliferation considered high-grade melanocytoma in the 2018 WHO Classification of Skin Tumors. Little has been reported about the associated genetic drivers in addition to BRAF an...

Jan 10th, 2022 - The Diagnosis: Cutaneous Myxoma Microscopic analysis showed features of cutaneous myxoma (quiz images). The epidermis was essentially unremarkable.

Sep 28th, 2022 - Primary pigmented nodular adrenocortical disease (PPNAD) is a pituitary-independent, primary adrenal form of hypercortisolism characterized by (a) resistance to suppression by dexamethasone and abolition of the normal diurnal rhythm of cortisol se...

Oct 22nd, 2021 - Skin melanoma is a common form of skin cancer. Its diagnosis is usually clinically suspected and then affirmed by histopathological examination. In some cases, the histopathological analysis of these lesions is equivocal, and the malignant or beni...

Jan 10th, 2022 - The Diagnosis: Cutaneous Myxoma Microscopic analysis showed features of cutaneous myxoma (quiz images). The epidermis was essentially unremarkable.

Jun 23rd, 2021 - To the Editor: Annular leukoderma, or the halo phenomenon, is a circular reaction of hypopigmentation that most commonly is observed alongside congenital nevi, acquired melanocytic nevi, blue nevi, Spitz nevi, vitiligo, and rarely melanoma. 1 There.

Aug 28th, 2018 - The Diagnosis: Eruptive Blue Nevus All biopsies demonstrated similar histologic features, including an intradermal proliferation of heavily pigmented, spindle-shaped dendritic melanocytes (Figure). The dermal pigment was most pronounced in the gro.

Mar 8th, 2018 - The physician suspected that this was a benign blue nevus because it had a regular border and was uniformly dark in color. He also recognized that melanoma is very rare at age 19.

Aug 31st, 2016 - The term nevus spilus (NS), also known as speckled lentiginous nevus, was first used in the 19th century to describe lesions with background café au lait–like lentiginous melanocytic hyperplasia speckled with small, 1- to 3-mm, darker foci. The da.