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Definition / general | Case reports | Clinical images | Gross description | Microscopic (histologic) description | Microscopic (histologic) imagesCite this page: Jain D. Blue nevus. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/eyeneviblue.html. Accessed December 23rd, 2024.
Definition / general
- Combined nevus: combination of nevocytic and blue nevus (Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc 1999;97:170)
Case reports
- 41 year old man with blue nevus giving rise to melanoma (Arch Ophthalmol 2000;118:1581)
- 54 year old man with multifocal pigmentations (Klin Monatsbl Augenheilkd 1994;205:242)
- 55 year old woman with multifocal blue nevus (Surv Ophthalmol 2008;53:41)
- 71 year old woman with slow growing lesion (Ophthalmology 1992;99:1714)
Gross description
- Blue-brown due to superficial location, lack of dermal collagen and numerous pigmented nevus cells
Microscopic (histologic) description
- Spindled and dendritic melanocytes in epithelium and collagenous stroma
- Melanocytes have coarsely clumped melanin granules