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Spitz Nevus
Aka: Spitz Nevus, Benign Juvenile Melanoma
- Epidemiology
- Most common in children
- Pathophysiology
- Not a cancer (named only for it's similarity of histology to Melanoma)
- Increased vascular supply gives the lesion its color
- Signs
- Hairless
- Red to red-brown dome-shaped Papules to Nodules
- Variable surface (smooth to verrucous)
- Size varies from 0.3 to 1.5 cm
- Typically of sudden onset
- Management
- Excise due to histologic similarities to Melanoma
- Alert pathologist to the gross examination findings suggestive of Spitz Nevus
- Reference
- Habif (2003) Clinical Dermatology, 4th ed.. Mosby, p. 773-813