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| Year : 2009 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 78 |
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Bathing trunk nevus
AY Kshirsagar, KS Shukla, YP Nikam, RB Garg, TU Sholapurkar
Department of Surgery, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, University, Karad, India
| Date of Web Publication | 22-Aug-2009 |
Correspondence Address:
A Y Kshirsagar
Department of Surgery, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, University, Malkapur, Karad - 415 110, Dist. Satara, Maharashtra
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0971-9261.55160
Keywords: Bathing trunk nevus, congenital nevomelanocytic nevus, congenital pigmented nevi
How to cite this article:
Kshirsagar A Y, Shukla K S, Nikam Y P, Garg R B, Sholapurkar T U. Bathing trunk nevus. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg 2009;14:78 |
How to cite this URL:
Kshirsagar A Y, Shukla K S, Nikam Y P, Garg R B, Sholapurkar T U. Bathing trunk nevus. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg [serial online] 2009 [cited 2023 Sep 23];14:78. Available from: https://www.jiaps.com/text.asp?2009/14/2/78/55160 |
We report a one-day-old male child born with bathing trunk hairy nevus [Figure 1]. Congenital hairy nevus denotes a pigmented surface lesion present at birth in one per cent of newborns, but incidence of giant congenital pigmented nevi is less than 1 in 20,000 births. These nevi are significant because of association with leptomeningeal melanocytosis or neurofibromatosis and predispose to malignant melanoma. The exact cause is unknown. There may be hereditary factors, autosomal dominance or other multifactor determinants. Management depends upon size, location and malignant transformation. Surgical excision is the mainstay of treatment. Cultured epidermal autograph has been used successfully to cover postoperative large surface area defect.
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