halo nevus

halo nevus
a melanocytic nevus surrounded by a halo of depigmentation that may be an immune response to the nevus cells. A minority may be related to development of melanoma. Called also leukoderma acquisitum centrifugum and Sutton n.

Halo nevus.


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