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    J Dermatol Surg Oncol. 1990 Apr;16(4):377-80.

    Congenital melanocytic nevi with halo phenomenon: report of two cases and a review of the literature.

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    Department of Dermatology, University of Vienna Medical School, Austria.

    Abstract

    Verrucous congenital nevocellular nevi surrounded by a depigmented halo occurring in a 7-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were excised and the wounds closed primarily. Histopathologic studies revealed a striking arrangement of the inflammatory infiltrate in these halo nevi. A dense, band-like, lymphohistiocytic infiltrate was found only around and intermingled with A- and B-type nevomelanocytes in the upper dermis, whereas inflammatory infiltrates were completely absent from type C-nevomelanocytes in the lower parts of the reticular dermis. The literature is reviewed with particular consideration of congenital halo nevi.

    PMID:
    2182687
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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