A review and a discussion of cellular nevi are presented and the realtionship of junctional nevi to malignant melanoma is considered. Regardless of the appearance of the lesion, wide surgical excision is recommended for all pigmented lesions within the oral cavity.

The most common intraoral nevi are intramucosal (55%) and blue (32%) nevi, while junctional (5%) and compound (6%) nevi are relatively rare. 4 Clinically, most nevi present as small (<0.5 cm), raised (more than 80%), pigmented lesions (about 85%) that range from 0.1 to 0.5 cm in size, but 20% are flat, macular lesions. Occasional lesions lack ...

histological criteria, intraorally four types of nevi have been described: the intramucosal, junctional, compound and blue. In this article, we are reporting a case of oral pigmented lesion in a young female with an unusual

The intraoral variant of blue nevus is typically identified between the third and fifth decades of life, with an average patient age at diagnosis of 38 years. Females tend to be more commonly affected than males.

Acquired melanocytic nevi evolve from junctional nevi to compound nevi and finally, to intramucosal nevi. In junctional nevi, clusters of nevus cells are arranged among the basal cells of the epithelium. As the nevus cells proliferate, clusters of these cells drop from the basal layer of the epithelium to nests of pigmented cells both within ...