Rectal Blue Nevus: Distinguishing Features of a Rare Entity

A 26-year-old African American man with a history of depression and tuberculosis presented to the gastroenterology department after several months of rectal pain with bowel movements. Colonoscopy revealed hyperpigmentation in the distal rectum and internal hemorrhoids, which resulted in a diagnosis of blue nevi. This is only the third known description of a blue nevus involving the gastrointestinal mucosa.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  ACG Case Reports Journal

• Publication date

  2016-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.14309/crj.2016.141PMID 28008401PMCID 5171939
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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