Extensive speckled lentiginous nevus associated with giant congenital melanocytic nevus: An unusual example of twin spotting?

European Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 534-536

  Torrelo, Antonio ^a   De Prada, Inmaculada ^a   Zambrano, Antonio ^a   Happle, Rudolf ^b  

^a HOSPITAL INFANTIL UNIVERSITARIO NIÑO JESÚS   (Spain)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Melanocytic nevi; Nevus spilus; Postzygotic recombination; Twin spotting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACK; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LENTIGINOUS NEVUS; MALE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; NEVUS; NEWBORN; PHAKOMATOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRUNK;

ADOLESCENT; HUMANS; LENTIGO; MALE; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0347419343     PISSN: 11671122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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