Related Experiment Videos
Transepidermal elimination of nevus cells. A possible mechanism of nevus involution
1Department of Dermatology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Archives of Dermatology
|October 1, 1987
Abstract:
Nevus cell nests were seen histologically within the upper levels of the epidermis in biopsy specimens obtained from three patients with clinically banal-appearing nevi. Although the presence of melanocytes arranged as solitary units or grouped in nests in the upper layers of the epidermis is one histopathologic feature of malignant melanoma, we believe this finding represents transepidermal elimination of nevus cells and may be one mechanism of nevus involution.