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Bathing Trunk Nevus

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bath·ing trunk nevus (bng)
n.
A congenital nevus that is large, hairy, and pigmented and that usually occurs on the lower trunk of the body. Also called tierfellnaevus.

Bathing Trunk Nevus
A premalignant congenital melanocytic nevus, which measures > 5 cm in greatest dimension, and has a ‘garment-like’ distribution—bathing trunk, cap, coat sleeve, stocking—often with scattered satellite lesions; up to 12% develop melanoma; leptomeningeal involvement may be accompanied by epilepsy and mental retardation

Histologic pattern Compound and intradermal nevus, neural nevus, and blue nevus


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