Nevus Spilus (Speckled Lentiginous Nevus)

  • Figure 2.8 A: Congenital nevus B: Spitz nevus (Reprint from Laxer RM, ed. The Hospital for Sick Children: Atlas of Pediatrics. Philadelphia, PA: Current Medicine; 2005) C: Nevus spilus (Courtesy of Dr. Paul Getz)
    Figure 2.8
    A: Congenital nevus
    B: Spitz nevus
    (Reprint from Laxer RM, ed.
    The Hospital for Sick Children:
    Atlas of Pediatrics. Philadelphia,
    PA: Current Medicine; 2005
    )
    C: Nevus spilus
    (Courtesy of Dr. Paul Getz)
    Presents as tan, regularly bordered patch with darker macules within lesion
  • Melanoma rarely arises within nevus component
  • Associated with phakomatosis pigmentovascularis and pigmentokeratotica (latter with organoid nevus + hemiatrophy + neurologic defects)