Deep Penetrating Nevus

Preferred Label : Deep Penetrating Nevus;

NCIt definition : A distinctive melanocytic nevus characterized by a sharply demarcated, circumscribed, and usually wedge-shaped configuration, with the base toward the epidermis and the tip toward the reticular dermis and subcutis. It may simulate melanoma both clinically and histologically.;

Neoplastic status : Benign;

Details

Origin ID

C7576;

UMLS CUI

C1333268;

Disease excludes abnormal cell
- Malignant Cell [NCIt concept]
- Melanoma Cell [NCIt concept]
Disease may have findings
- HMB-45-Positive Neoplastic Cells Present [NCIt concept]
- S-100-Positive Neoplastic Cells Present [NCIt concept]
- Subcutaneous Involvement [NCIt concept]
Has associated anatomic sites
- Integumentary System [NCIt concept]
- Skin [NCIt concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Neoplastic Process [UMLS semantic type]
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- Atypia [NCIt concept]
- Dysplasia [NCIt concept]
- Invasive Lesion [NCIt concept]
- Malignant Cellular Infiltrate [NCIt concept]
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- Neoplastic Cell [NCIt concept]
- Neoplastic Melanocyte [NCIt concept]
- Nevus Cell [NCIt concept]
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- Benign Cellular Infiltrate [NCIt concept]
- Cutaneous Involvement [NCIt concept]
- Dermal Involvement [NCIt concept]
- Wedge-Shaped Growth Pattern [NCIt concept]
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- Melanocyte [NCIt concept]
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- Skin Tissue [NCIt concept]
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- Skin [NCIt concept]

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