Sclerosing ‘Mucinous’ Blue Nevus: A Clinical Simulator of Dermatofibroma
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Sclerosing ‘Mucinous’ Blue Nevus: A Clinical Simulator of Dermatofibroma
Abundant mucin deposition is an unusual fi nding for melanocytic lesions. This notion, however, should be toned down since mucin may be present in distinct melanocytic lesions. Indeed, following the fi rst description of mucin depositions in neural differentiated naevi by Maize and Ackerman in 1987 1 this phenomenon was repeatedly observed. Especially in blue naevi mucin deposition is a peculia...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical medicine. Pathology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1178-1181
DOI: 10.4137/cpath.s508