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Atypical Spitz Tumor of Uncertain Biologic Potential with Inopportune Localization in a 7-year-old Boy.
The Spitz nevus was first described as the “melanoma of childhood” or “juvenile melanoma” by Sophie Spitz in 1948 (1). Most spitzoid melanocytic proliferations can be classified as benign Spitz nevi or spitzoid melanomas based on published criteria (2-3). However, a subset of spitzoid lesions have histological features that deviate from a typical Spitz nevus, yet are insufficient for a definiti...
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BACKGROUND Atypical Spitz tumors (AST) are rare spitzoid melanocytic proliferations with an uncertain malignant potential. ASTs have overlapping features of both Spitz nevi and spitzoid melanoma, and consequently generate controversy with diagnosis and management. Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has been proposed as a possible means to gain additional insight into the true biologic potential ...
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We present the case of 10-year-old girl who have had from birth a plane tumor, of tan color, 3-4 mm of diameter, localized on the face on the cutaneous part of the superior lip. This tumor has been stabile until 8-year-old. Then, after repeated sunlight exposures, the lesion has become more stark, hemispheric in shape, has increased in size becoming about 5-6 mm, with irregular borders, and aft...
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The clinicopathologic classification, diagnosis, and management of Spitzoid melanocytic lesions is one of the most problematic topics in dermato-oncology and dermatopathology. After earlier anecdotal reports [1,2], the controversial history of these controversial lesions began in 1948 when Sophie Spitz described 13 cases of what she called “juvenile melanoma,” underlining its presumably good pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0008-543X,1097-0142
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24694