González-Rubio R, López-Méndez HA, Valencia-Castellanos MA, Aguilar-Rodríguez F, Cristiano-Cristiano F

Language: Spanish
References: 15
Page: 285-288
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ABSTRACT

Gigantic Congenital Melanocytes Nevus are rare, the literature reports that they present on 1 of every 250,000- 500,000 newborns and the potential risk of developing a malignancy increases according to its size. The importance of this pathology exist on the impacting problems from an aesthetic surgical and emotional point of view, which can originate on the patient and their relatives. Moreover, the possible association to other malformations on the central nervous system and some of them, the risk of being a melanoma. The following case is a newborn with the presence of gigantic congenital Melanocytic Nevus covering lower and upper back, anterior thorax and abdomen, in the shape of a vest. The clinical aspects, diagnostics and the therapeutic focus for gigantic congenital Melanocytic Nevus are revised.

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