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While metastatic malignant melanomas are the most common pigmented lesions encountered in the nervous system, their histopathologic features are well known to the surgical pathologist. This chapter will focus on two distinctive, but rarely encountered melanocytic CNS lesions: (1) meningeal melanocytoma and (2) meningeal melanocytosis. As the names imply, the former lesion presents as a meningeal mass, while the latter involves the meninges in a more diffuse fashion.
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Prayson, R.A., Cohen, M.L. (2000). Melanocytic Lesions. In: Practical Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Neuropathology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-037-7_28
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