Melanoma in a congenital melanocytic nevus.

CMAJ

Faculty of Medicine (Zeglinski-Spinney, Kirchhof), University of Ottawa; Dermatology Division (Kirchhof), Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa and the Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ont.

Published: May 2024

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