Blue white veil

From dermoscopedia

This is the page on the glossary term Blue white veil which is relevant on dermoscopedia. See also the list of terms.

Description

Blue-white veil is confluent blue pigmentation with an overlying white “ground-glass” haze. In melanoma, the bluewhite veil does not occupy the entire surface area of the lesion, but rather is present as a focal, ill-defined area. Histopathologically, this dermoscopic structure corresponds to an aggregation of heavily pigmented cells (melanocytes and/or melanophages) or melanin in the dermis (blue color) in combination with compact orthokeratosis

Occurrences

 The following pages use blue white veil as keyword:

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Blue white structuresThis chapter describes the correlation of blue white structures in dermoscopy
Blue white veilThis chapter describes histopathology of the dermoscopy term blue white veil
Blue whitish veilIn this chapter we describe blue white structures network and its histopathological correlation
Regression structures / Blue white structuresIn this chapter we describe blue white structures network and its histopathological correlation

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