Evaluation of Crizotinib Treatment in a Patient With Unresectable GOPC-ROS1 Fusion Agminated Spitz Nevi.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Spitz nevi are benign melanocytic neoplasms that classically present in childhood. Isolated Spitz nevi have been associated with oncogenic gene fusions in approximately 50% of cases. The rare agminated variant of Spitz nevi, thought to arise from cutaneous genetic mosaicism, is characterized by development of clusters of multiple lesions in a segmental distribution, which can complicate surgical removal. Somatic single-nucleotide variants in the HRAS oncogene have been described in agminated Spitz nevi, most of which were associated with an underlying nevus spilus. The use of targeted medical therapy for agminated Spitz nevi is not well understood.

Observations

A girl aged 30 months presented with facial agminated Spitz nevi that recurred rapidly and extensively a

SUBMITTER: Robertson SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8173474 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature