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CASE REPORT

Blue Nevus: A Rare Pigmented Lesion of Sinonasal Tract

S Bhargava, M Grover, PC Verma

Keywords : Sinonasal,melanocyte,blue nevus

Citation Information : Bhargava S, Grover M, Verma P. Blue Nevus: A Rare Pigmented Lesion of Sinonasal Tract. Clin Rhinol An Int J 2009; 2 (3):61-62.

DOI: 10.5005/jp-journals-10013-1014

Published Online: 01-12-2009

Copyright Statement:  Copyright © 2009; The Author(s).


Abstract

Blue nevi are uncommon lesions of skin and mucosa. Most of these occur in skin. Only occasionally they are seen to involve mucosa. Sinonasal mucosa is one of the rarest of the sites for these lesions to occur. Only four such cases have been reported in international literature till date. We report here one such case which we came across.


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