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OBJECTIVE To report a 20-month-old child with a rapidly growing dome-shaped red nodule on the left lower eyelid. The lesion was diagnosed clinically as an hemangioma, but microscopy disclosed an epithelioid Spitz nevus. METHODS Case report. RESULTS Histopathologic examination of the excised lesion disclosed a Spitz nevus (benign juvenile melanoma) of a chiefly epithelioid cell type. CONCLUSIONS The differential diagnosis of eyelid skin nodules in children should include Spitz nevus. This uncommon nevus has many cytologic features in common with nodular malignant melanoma. Histologically, it may be difficult to distinguish between nodular malignant melanoma and Spitz nevus.
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