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The sharp distinction between benign nevi and malignant melanoma has increasingly come into question in recent years. The dichotomy between nevi, with no metastatic potential, and melanoma, with a metastatic capacity proportional to its thickness, and no different from that of other melanomas of the same thickness is undoubtedly an oversimplification. Surely, there is a “gray zone,” which is composed of lesions that cannot be precisely classified into one of these groups.
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Massi, G., LeBoit, P.E. (2014). Criteria for the Diagnosis of Nevus. In: Histological Diagnosis of Nevi and Melanoma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37311-4_1
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