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Targetoid Combined Blue Nevi

Giuseppe Argenziano, MD
Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Arch Dermatol. 2004;140:1576.

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The lesions shown are from the back of a 12-year-old white boy (Figure 1), the leg of a 21-year-old white woman (Figure 2), and the abdomen of a 31-year-old white woman (Figure 3). The lesions reveal a targetoid appearance with the blue pigmentation being present centrally (best represented by Figures 1 and 2) within a larger lesion demonstrating brown/tan epidermal pigmentation. The etiology of these lesions is unknown but it is possible that an underlying mutation results in a clone of cells that expands preferentially in the epidermis but only focally in the dermis.

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Editor’s Note: The skINsight section is a forum for the presentation of dermatologic images. The current effort is to foster the recognition of patterns in dermatologic disease processes that may enhance both diagnostic and research capabilities. The initial focus is . . . [Full Text of this Article]