Damm Douglas D, White Dean K, Lyu Peter E, Puno Pauline
Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, College of Dentistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0297, USA.
Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod. 2008 Jun;105(6):755-7. doi: 10.1016/j.tripleo.2007.09.014. Epub 2008 Feb 20.
The balloon cell nevus is an uncommon variant of melanocytic nevi in which the majority of the proliferation consists of cells demonstrating peculiarly large clear, foamy, or finely vacuolated cytoplasm. The vacuolated cells represent altered nevus cells and upon immunoperoxidase evaluation react positively with several melanocytic markers. Complete excision results in cure. This report describes the second balloon cell nevus of the oral mucosa documented in the English-language literature.
气球状细胞痣是黑素细胞痣的一种罕见变体，其中大多数增殖细胞表现出特别大的透明、泡沫状或细空泡状细胞质。空泡状细胞代表改变的痣细胞，经免疫过氧化物酶评估，它们与几种黑素细胞标志物呈阳性反应。完整切除可治愈。本报告描述了英文文献中记录的第二例口腔黏膜气球状细胞痣。
