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Multiple Epithelioid Spitz Nevi or Tumors With Loss of BAP1 Expression
1 Mar 2013
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IMPORTANCE: Recently, a group of melanocytic tumors with loss of BAP1 expression has been described. The lesions may occur sporadically or as part of a familial cancer syndrome. They have distinct histopathologic features characterized by a nevus like silhouette and cytologic composition of large epithelioid melanocytes with oval vesicular nuclei, distinct nucleoli, and abundant cytoplasm. The large melanocytes...
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