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Martin H. Brownstein, MD; Bonnie B. Kazam, MD; Ken Hashimoto, MD

Arch Dermatol. 1977;113(11):1572-1575.

Abstract
• A 24-year-old woman noted a depigmented halo around a pigmented lesion that had been present on her abdomen since birth. The halo and the central pigmented zone showed no change during the following year. Light and electron microscopic studies disclosed an uninflamed nevus extending to the deep reticular dermis; peripherally, the basal layer of the epidermis was depigmented. These findings indicate that a halo may develop about an uninflamed nevus that does not involute, and that the nevus may show the specific histopathology of congenital nevus.

(Arch Dermatol 113:1572-1575, 1977)

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Dermatology (Drs Brownstein and Kazam) and Pathology (Dr Brownstein), New York Medical College-Metropolitan Hospital Center; and the Memphis Veterans Administration Hospital and the Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis (Dr Hashimoto).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Aug 23, 1976.

Reprint requests to Laboratory of Dermatopathology, PO Box 400, Great Neck, NY 11022 (Dr Brownstein).

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