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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hematol Oncol Clin North Am. 2024 Jun 15;38(5):939–952. doi: 10.1016/j.hoc.2024.05.005

Figure 2.

Figure 2.

Classes of melanocytic nevi. In addition to common acquired nevi, several distinct types of nevi have been identified A) Blue nevus. Note that his lesion is macular and that the the blue/gray color is due to deep dermal infiltration of nevus melanocytes B) Spitz nevus on the finger of a 5-year-old child. These lesions often present a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge.