Adnexal-centered giant congenital melanocyte nevus with extensive ganglioneuromatous component and trisomy 7.

ABSTRACT

Adequate interpretation of clinical and histopathologic features of giant congenital melanocytic nevus (GCMN) in newborns is a continued challenge. A GCMN with three large nodules and three polypoid exophytic tumors presented in the dorsum of a female full-term newborn, the borders exhibiting a spotted grouped pattern. Microscopic examination revealed a peculiar adnexal-centered (eccrine sweat gland ducts, acrosiringia, and hair infundibula) compound nevus expressing pagetoid intraepidermal spreading of epithelioid melanocytes. The nodules represented an extensive ganglioneuromatous component. The neurons and their neuropil were positive for neuron-specific enolase, S-100, synaptophysin, tyrosine hydroxilase, and PGP 9.5. In addition to these components, a poorly differentiated, fusiform, low-mitotic rate population of cells undergoing epithelioid differentiation (and probably neuronal differentiation) with nodular arrangement was also present in the polypoid tumors and deeper parts of the nevus, in part intermixed with the neurons. These cells were vimentin positive but S-100 negative. FISH studies revealed these cells to express three signals for the centromeric probe for chromosome 7 whereas the neuronal component showed just two. Adnexal-centered arrangement of melanocytes has not been emphasized in GCMN. Ganglioneuromatous differentiation has been rarely reported in this condition. Trisomy 7 in GCMN has been reported only once previously.