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Melanocytic Lesions

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Dural-based lesions thought to derive from the leptomeningeal melanocytes. These include both circumscribed mass lesions melanocytoma and malignant melanoma, as well as diffuse leptomeningeal melanocytosis and its malignant counterpart melanomatosis. Diffuse melanocytosis is strongly linked to the rare congenital autosomal dominant phakomatosis neurocutaneous melanosis (Touraine syndrome), the affected patients in addition harbor large and/or multiple cutaneous congenital nevi. These patients are at significantly heightened risk for development of leptomeningeal melanoma or melanomatosis.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    Christine E. Fuller M.D. (Professor of Pathology, Director of Neuropathology)

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  1. Dept. Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor Plaza 1, Houston, 77030, U.S.A.

    Adekunle M. Adesina

  2. School of Medicine, University of California, Parnassus Ave. 505, San Francisco, 94143, U.S.A.

    Tarik Tihan

  3. VCU Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, E. Marshall Street 1200, Richmond, 23298, U.S.A.

    Christine E. Fuller

  4. Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Longwood Ave. 300, Boston, 02115, U.S.A.

    Tina Young Poussaint

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Fuller, C.E. (2010). Melanocytic Lesions. In: Adesina, A., Tihan, T., Fuller, C., Poussaint, T. (eds) Atlas of Pediatric Brain Tumors. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1062-2_11

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