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- Title
From Active Junctional Nevus to Dysplastic Nevus: No Boon to Children with Melanocytic Nevi.
- Authors
Ackerman, A. Bernard
- Abstract
The article reports that just as there was no unanimity about definition of active junctional nevus in children, so, too, there is none for dysplasia. No two pathologists seem able to define it in the same way. Although the word dysplasia had a specific meaning in classic pathology, it has now become meaningless because contemporary pathologists either cannot define it at all or garble any attempt to define it with opaque phrases. In sum, it is agreed universally that virtually all acquired melanocytic nevi begin with proliferation of melanocytes within the epidermis, that is, as junctional nevi. It is not hyperbolic to state that there are billions of junctional nevi in human beings of all ages, but mostly in children, throughout the world.
- Subjects
DYSPLASIA; NEVUS; JUNCTIONAL complexes (Epithelium); CHILDREN; MELANOCYTES; PATHOLOGY
- Publication
Pediatric Dermatology, 1992, Vol 9, Issue 4, p338
- ISSN
0736-8046
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1525-1470.1992.tb00621.x