Melanoma with features of a Spitz nevus

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

Spitz nevus

A Spitz nevus is a benign melanocytic nevus, a type of skin lesion, affecting the epidermis and dermis....

and with overall symmetry and a dermal nodule of epithelioid melanocytes that do not mature with progressively deeper dermal extension.

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