In Situ Melanoma of the Nail Unit in Children: Report of Two Cas in Fair‐Skinned Caucasian
Children
期刊名称： Pediatric Dermatology
作者： Antonella Tosti,Bianca M. Piraccini,Anna Cagalli,Eckart Haneke
年份： 2012年
期号： 第1期
关键词： arterio-venous malformation;spine;cerebral
palsy;child;intervention;embolisation
摘要：Nail melanoma in children is rarely reported in the literature, and all of the published cas were diagnod in dark-skinned phototypes or in Asians. We report two cas of in situ nail matrix melanoma prenting as longitudinal melanonychia (LM) in fair-skinned children of Italian origin. Nail pl
ate dermatoscopy revealed a brown background with lines of irregular color, spacing, and thickness in both cas. Histopathology of the excid lesions showed melanoma in situ. Clinical, dermatoscopic, and pathological criteria that permit clear differentiation of benign melanocytic activation or proliferation from nail matrix melanoma are not established for children. The prence of a pigmented band of a single nail in a child usually reprents a problem for clinicians, becau the clinical and dermatoscopic features that
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