Inflamed juvenile conjunctival naevus: clinicopathological characterisation

Inflamed juvenile conjunctival naevus: clinicopathological characterisation.

AIM Inflamed juvenile conjunctival naevi (IJCN) are often erroneously suspected to be malignant because of rapid growth. Their clinical and histopathological features have not been characterised in series of patients. The aim of the study is to characterise IJCN clinically and histopathologically. METHODS This is a retrospective non-randomised clinicopathological study. All patients younger t...

Nerve growth factor and eosinophils in inflamed juvenile conjunctival nevus.

PURPOSE To study both systemic and ocular nerve growth factor (NGF) in inflamed juvenile conjunctival nevus (IJCN), a benign, inflammatory juxtalimbal lesion characterized by many intralesional eosinophils, and to investigate the behavior of eosinophils cocultured on lesional and extralesional fibroblasts obtained from IJCN biopsies, in relation to NGF. METHODS Eight patients with IJCN (7-15 ...

Juvenile Conjunctival Nevus

Conjunctival nevi in children and adolescents often have histologic features that can be difficult to differentiate from malignancy. We have identified a subset of childhood nevi displaying a confluent growth pattern and a lack of maturation that we have defined as juvenile conjunctival nevi (JCN), with the aim of further describing the clinicopathologic features of these lesions. Lesions ident...

Spontaneous cyclical pigmentary changes in a conjunctival naevus.

Inflammatory juvenile compound conjunctival nevi. A clinicopathological study and literature review.

AIM The conjunctival nevus affecting children and adolescents is a rare condition and the literature showed only few reports on this issue. The aim of this article is to determine the histopathological features for the correct diagnosis of an inflammatory juvenile compound nevus of the conjunctiva (IJCNC) in order to make the difference between this tumor and other lesions, like conjunctival me...