Eye
Conjunctiva
Melanocytic tumors
Spitz nevus
Author: Deepali Jain, M.D.
Topic Completed: 1 October 2014
Minor changes: 26 June 2020
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PubMed Search: Spitz nevus conjunctiva
Related Topics: Nevi
Table of Contents
Definition / general | Case reports | Clinical images | Gross description | Microscopic (histologic) description | Microscopic (histologic) images | Positive stains | Differential diagnosisCite this page: Jain D. Spitz nevus. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/eyenevispitz.html. Accessed January 22nd, 2021.
Definition / general
- Also called spindle and epithelioid cell nevus
- Rare; usually children
Case reports
- 28 year old man with rapidly growing mass (Bull Soc Belge Ophtalmol 2007;(303):63)
Clinical images
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Lesion of eyelid
Gross description
- Nonpigmented, pink-yellow, nodular
Microscopic (histologic) description
- Large, uniform, epithelioid cells and lightly pigmented spindle cells
- Rarely has more pigmented nevus cells
- No / rare mitotic figures
Microscopic (histologic) images
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Lesion of eyelid
Differential diagnosis
