BACKGROUND Heritability of naevi counts is widely acknowledged as a potential surveillance parameter for prevention purposes. The contribution of heritability to the changes seen in naevus number and morphology over time and their corresponding dermoscopic characteristics is unknown, but is important to understand in order to account for adequate prevention measures. OBJECTIVES To identify na...

© 2011 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-1133 Journal Compilation © 2011 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Epidermal naevus syndromes include different diseases that share a common feature of mosaicism (1, 2). The association of a speckled lentiginous naevus, an organoid naevus with sebaceous differentiation, with skeletal and neurological anomalies, constitutes a specific syndrome ca...

In this study 103 patients with skin tumors were examined. Among them there were 43 (42%) male patients and 60 (58%) female patients. Working diagnosis was obtained by clinical examination using dermoscope. After excision of lesion, working diagnosis was compared to pathohistological diagnosis. In our study we used dermoscope Heine proper delta 10. The clinical-dermoscopic diagnosis included ve...

AIMS To investigate whether corneal autofluorescence is different in patients with choroidal melanoma or choroidal naevus. METHODS Corneal autofluorescence was determined by fluorophotometry in both eyes of 32 patients with a unilateral choroidal melanoma, 32 patients with a unilateral choroidal naevus, and 32 age matched healthy controls. The corneal autofluorescence ratio between affected a...

Background. The incidence of cutaneous melanoma is rapidly increasing in Europe. Active research is directed toward the identification of naevi as a risk factor. Objective. The aim of our case-control study was to observe different numbers of moles and different mole typology associations in order to evaluate clinical predictivity and to establish a new classification for some naevus variants. ...

© 2014 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-1641 Journal Compilation © 2014 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Spitz naevus was first described by Sophie Spitz in 1948 (1). It is a variant of benign melanocytic naevus composed of spindled and epithelioid melanocytes, found predominantly in children and adolescents. A number of histopathological variants have been reported, such as desmopl...

Phacomatosis pigmentokeratotica is characterized by the coexistence of an organoid epidermal naevus, follow-ing Blaschko's lines, and a large speckled lentiginous naevus, typically arranged in a chequerboard pattern. This entity has been isolated from the group of epidermal naevus syndromes and is frequently associated with extracutaneous anomalies. We report here the first observation of phaco...