Mucinous eccrine nevus.

J C Romer; J W Taira

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Mucinous eccrine nevus.

J C Romer·J W Taira

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We report a solitary lesion with histologic characteristics of an organoid nevus occurring on the lower extremity of a forty-seven-year-old woman. This lesion is thought to represent a variant of eccrine nevus composed of an intradermal proliferation of hyperplastic eccrine sweat glands with associated mucinous change.

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J C Romer, J W Taira. 1994. Mucinous eccrine nevus.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8039418/

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