Blue nevi of internal organs are more similar to the so-called dermal melanocytosis than to cutaneous blue nevi

Vol. 48 No. 1, 2007

ROMANIAN JOURNAL of MORPHOLOGY and EMBRYOLOGY

A. Fernandez-Flores

In this report, we examine several morphologic aspects of blue nevi of internal organs, and compare them to similar conditions of the skin. From a morphologic point of view, blue nevi of internal organs are more similar to the so-called dermal melanocytoses. Nevertheless, since melanocytoses and blue-nevi seem to have the same benign prognosis, and since blue nevus is a historically consolidated term to refer to pigmented spindle cell lesions of internal organs, a most appropriate term, to refer to the latter, will not be easily accepted in literature.

Corresponding author: Angel Fernandez-Flores, MD, PhD, e-mail: gpyauflowerlion@terra.es

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