Conjunctival Pigmented Epithelioid Melanocytoma: A Clinicopathological Case Report

Case Report of a Large Pigmented Epithelioid Melanocytoma With Suspected Lymph Node Metastases

Objective: Pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma was proposed by Zembowicz et al in 2004 including lesions previously diagnosed as human animal-type melanoma and epithelioid blue nevus. Tumors are composed of epithelioid and spindled melanocytes with heavy pigmentation. Methods: We report a case of pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma in 47-year-old Asian woman. The tumor sized 10 × 6 × 2 cm on the ...

Pigmented Epithelioid Melanocytoma in a Child: Unusual Clinical Presentation

369 intravenous adenosine is known to adversely cause facial flushing, headache, palpitations, light headedness, dizziness, blurring of vision and nausea, the local pain or discomfort and local flushing are not described. These adverse events were probably caused by intra-arterial injection of adenosine in the given case. In a clinical trial done by Costa et al [6] , adenosine injection in the ...

Pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma: immunohistochemical profiles of tumour-infiltrating histiocytes.

Pigmented Bowens disease mimicking malignant Melanoma: A case report

Pigmented Bowens disease is an in situ squamous cell carcinoma, which is seldom reported in white patients. Herein we report a 20-year-old woman with type III skin, who had this lesion on the fourth finger of her right hand, similar to superficial malignant melanoma, clinically. Although dermoscopic evaluation could be helpful, correct diagnosis of non-melanotic origin is done by histological e...

Pigmented Epithelioid Melanocytoma (PEM)/Animal Type Melanoma (ATM): Quest for an Origin. Report of One Unusual Case Indicating Follicular Origin and Another Arising in an Intradermal Nevus †

Pigmented epithelioid melanocytoma (PEM) is a tumor encompassing epithelioid blue nevus of Carney complex (EBN of CNC) and was previously termed animal-type melanoma. Histologically PEMs are heavily pigmented spindled and epithelioid dermal melanocytic tumors with infiltrative borders, however, their origin remains unclear. Stem cells for the epidermis and hair follicle are located in the bulge...