Acral junctional lentiginous melanocytic naevus

Case 983 (M. Hurt) The patient is a 70 year old woman with an excision taken from the left lateral 5th toe.

Symmetry; melanocytes spare supra-papillary plates; pigment elimination in vertical columns.  This benign feature usually shows clinically as pigment in the furrows of the dermatoglyphic.