Melanomas arising from orbital melanocytic proliferations are exceedingly rare. Many questions remain regarding their development and malignant transformation. We report on a 45-year-old Caucasian woman with a nevus of Ota that presented with visual disturbances involving her right eye and was found to have a biopsy-proven cellular blue nevus in the orbital space. Five years later, she presente...

INTRODUCTION Prostatic blue nevus was first described as a benign lesion of uncertain and controversial histogenesis by Nogogosyan in 1963. Currently, 30 cases have been reported in the world literature. CASE PRESENTATION A 63-year-old Hispanic man presented with prostatism of several months' evolution. Histopathological examination revealed a blue nevus associated with nodular hyperplasia an...

An 11-year-old girl presented to our department with a blue-gray papule approximately 4 mm in diameter. We suspected that it was a blue nevus or a pigmented Reed/Spitz nevus. On dermoscopic observation, the lesion showed homogeneous black-bluish pigmentation. This dermoscopic feature was suggestive of a blue nevus. However, near-circumferential streaks and a global feature of a "starburst patte...

Sir, Kasabach-Merritt syndrome (KMS) is a condition of consumption coagulopathy in patients bearing vascular tumours and malformations. KMS is seen not only in infants bearing large haemangiomas, but has also been observed in various vascular diseases, such as bluerubber-bleb nevus syndrome (1) and Osler-Weber-Rendu disease (2). Angiosarcoma is a rare malignancy of vascular or lymphatic endothe...

BACKGROUND Blue rubber bleb naevus syndrome (BRBNS), is an uncommon condition characterised by cavernous haemangiomas of skin and gastrointestinal tract. The most common complication of this syndrome is gastrointestinal bleeding. Intussusception of bowel, although a known complication, has rarely been reported. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 37-year-old man who presented with multi...

Blue nevus is a cutaneous melanocytic lesion characterized by the proliferation of dermal dendritic melanocytes. In addition, blue nevus also has been rarely reported in various extracutaneous sites which are usually devoid of melanocytes such as oral mucosa, lymph nodes, maxillary sinus, pulmonary hilus, orbit, conjunctiva, meninges, vagina, prostate, spermatic cord, and cervix. It is suggeste...