Pathology
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Atlas of dermatopathology
Josef Feit, Hana Jedličková, Günter Burg, Luděk Matyska, Spasoje Radovanovic et al.
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+ Introduction
+ Literature
+ Support
+ Skin biopsy
+ Non-tumorous skin diseases
+ Skin tumors
+ Cysts of the skin and subcutis
+ Soft tissue lesions
+ Some lesions of the oral cavity
+ Dermatovenerology
+ Collection of histological slides by prof. Günter Burg
+ Collection of histological slides by prof. Werner Kempf
+ Collection of histological slides of dr. Ram Chandra Adhikari
Cellular blue nevus
Histology

Blue nevus as in the common dendritic type, in addition with areas composed of roundish, nondendritic melanocytes with broad cytoplasm and low melanin production.

Melanocytes may have atypical nuclei and mitoses are sometimes present.

The tumor may reach deep into the dermis or subcutaneous fat.

Cellular blue nevus (6450)