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The Clark Melanocytic Nevus (Dysplastic Melanocytic Nevus, Atypical Nevus)

A child leg with Clark Melanocytic Nevus   Clark melanocytic nevi (CMN) are types of special disease, acquired, circumscribed, pigmented lesions that represent disordered proliferations of variably atypical melanocytes. CMN arise de novo or as part of a compound melanocytic nevus. CMN are clinically distinctive from common acquired nevi: larger and more variegated in color, asymmetric in outline, irregular borders; they also have characteristic histologic features. Red nevi by Clark Melanocytic... 

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