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Melanoma with features of a Spitz nevus (also known as a "Spitzoid melanoma") is a cutaneous condition characterized histologically with tissue similar to a
spitz nevus A Spitz nevus is a benign skin lesion. A type of melanocytic nevus, it affects the epidermis and dermis.LeBoit, PE, Burg G, Weedon D, Sarasin A. (Eds) World Health Organization Classification of Tumours: Pathology and Genetics of Skin Tumours. L ...
and with overall symmetry and a dermal nodule of epithelioid melanocytes that do not mature with progressively deeper dermal extension.


See also

* Melanoma *
Spitz nevus A Spitz nevus is a benign skin lesion. A type of melanocytic nevus, it affects the epidermis and dermis.LeBoit, PE, Burg G, Weedon D, Sarasin A. (Eds) World Health Organization Classification of Tumours: Pathology and Genetics of Skin Tumours. L ...
* List of cutaneous conditions


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