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Case Number : Case 1552 - 07 June Posted By: Guest

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29 year old woman with 5 mm pigmented lesion on the left buttocks.

Dr Uma Sundram.


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Raul Perret

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Looks like blue nevus but the limits are compromised so should state it to get a full excision (for complete evaluation), these lesions can recur and be quite deep, particularly in that location

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Cellular blue naevus, which would correlate with the site. 

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vincenzo polizzi

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Deep penetrating nevus.

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Nitin Khirwadkar

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Would favour a cellular blue naevus, typical site.

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vincenzo polizzi

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Let me explain why favor a DPN. -the superficial derma is totally busy while the deepest one shows a focal free zone, that makes me think about some wedge shaped pattern deeply ( the biopsy catched only the superficial part of the lesion ). -there are many periadnexial growth patterns deeply. -I don't see any poorly pigmented nest together the deeply pigmented fascicles, so typical of cellular blue nevus.

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Arti Bakshi

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Cellular blue naevus.

There is clearly a spindle/dendritic melanocytic component, which puts the lesion more in the blue naevus category than DPN…I think.

Periadnexal spread is a feature of both.

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vincenzo polizzi

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Ok. I'm finally learning the dd between BN and DPN. Thanks Arti!

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Guest Charlie Keen

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Incomplete shave biopsy of BN.

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Uma Sundram

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I called this a cellular blue nevus and asked for a complete excision. This lesion addresses the difficulty of separating blue nevi that are on the cellular end of things and the so-called cellular blue nevus. I have had some issues with clinicians misinterpreting these lesions as benign (with a local recurrence rate of zero), so have called these cellular blue nevi to facilitate a re excision.  Dermal dendritic melanocytes characterize these lesions, but plenty of overlap among CBN, DPN and pigmented Spitz nevi that are not as epithelioid.

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Dr. Richard Carr

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Uma,  I'm slightly confused.  Cellular blue naevi are benign and any benign tumour incompletely excised may recur locally (but not always). What is the reason for recommending re-excision - are you concerned for example the lesion may have a risk for malignant transformation or that the diagnosis is not 100% certain and you would rather see it completely excised with clear margins for that reason - analogous to Spitz tumours?

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