Abstract:Giant congenital melanocytic nevi are brown-black lesions larger than 20 cm caused by benign proliferation of melanocytes. They either regress or progress in time in matters of thickness and size and may transform to malignancies. Here we report a twelve year old patient with giant melanocytic nevus of the scalp.
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