A Case of Epithelioid Blue Nevus
이충훈, 민혜숙, 박언섭, 송계용,
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이충훈 ( Lee Chung-Hun )
Chung-Ang University College of Medicine Department of Pathology
민혜숙 ( Min Hye-Sook )
Seoul National University College of Medicine Department of Pathology
박언섭 ( Park Eon-Sub )
Chung-Ang University College of Medicine Department of Pathology
송계용 ( Song Kye-Yong )
Chung-Ang University College of Medicine Department of Pathology
KMID : 0357920140480060434
Abstract
Although epithelioid blue nevus (EBN) is a rare variant of blue nevus that was first reported in patients with Carney complex, which encompasses cardiac and cutaneous myxomas, spotty skin pigmentation, endocrine overactivity, and psammomatous melanotic schwannomas,1 it has been also documented in the absence of such clinical features.2 Histological characteristics of EBN are variably pigmented, large epithelioid melanocytes with vesicular nuclei and prominent eosinophilic nucleoli and a small number of melanophages that are sometimes associated
with a few pigmented, spindle, and dendritic cells.3 EBN is a diagnostically challenging entity because of its rarity and histological overlap with other pigmented melanocytic lesions, such as cellular blue nevus, malignant blue nevus, and the so-called animal-type malignant melanoma. Because it is very uncommon and no cases have been recorded in the Korean literature,this Korean case is reported.
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