These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed


  • Title: Development of multiple pigmented nevi within segmental nevus depigmentosus.
    Author: Shim JH, Seo SJ, Song KY, Hong CK.
    Journal: J Korean Med Sci; 2002 Feb; 17(1):133-6. PubMed ID: 11850604.
    Abstract:
    Nevus depigmentosus is a stable and well-circumscribed congenital hypomelanosis that may be in an isolated, dermatomal or systemic form. An 18-yr-old Korean man with segmental nevus depigmentosus developed multiple pigmented nevi which were present only within the confines of the leukoderma. Histologic and electron microscopic studies rendered a diagnosis of nevus depigmentosus with dysplastic nevus to the patient. The genetic alteration of melanocytes in the hypopigmented lesion is assumed to have resulted in the development of multiple pigmented nevi.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]