Melanocytic Dermpath Basics: Benign Nevus

[@JMGardnerMD]

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[@annaj7058]

Dr Gardner, I'm a first year anatomical pathology registrar and just wanted to say your tutorials have helped me immensely during my first year of training so thank-you, you are the GOAT of dermatopathology

[@JMGardnerMD]

You are so kind! Thank you & best of luck with your training! 😊

[@muthannajabbar4426]

Dr. Gardner, Your teaching style is truly special-fun and engaging. Watching your videos is like reading a beautiful novel; I can’t stop until the end! You break down complex topics as effectively as bile salts emulsify lipids in the gut, making dense material easy to mentally digest and understand. I also love teaching and strive to simplify things for my learners. I’m currently a PGY-3 pathology resident, studying and applying for dermatopathology fellowship, and your videos are the best resources I’ve found. I recently got your Dermpath Survival Guide, and reviewing the same topics in the book right after watching your videos makes learning both fun and beautiful. I can’t thank you enough. For those who love dermpath, this is like getting the pearls of 100 hours signing out with an experienced and generous dermatopathologist, but on your own time of preference! It couldn’t be better. For fun: This morning, while finishing one of your videos, a co-resident passing by in the corridor recognized your voice instantly and said, “Dr. Jared Gardner! You can always recognize his voice" 😊 Thank you for sharing your gift for teaching. It’s truly priceless!

[@JMGardnerMD]

You made my day. Thank you! Best of luck with your fellowship applications!!!

[@a97cck]

Thank you for the great video and all the beautiful slides! 0:01 Introduction and disclaimers 4:03 Shave biopsy 6:03 Symmetry 9:06 Junctional, Intradermal dermal and Compound Nevus 15:02 Maturation and type A B C melanocytes 26:10 (Lack of) Cytological atypia 34:20 Dysplastic nevus 45:44 Congenital features 1:00:41 Neurotized look 1:02:30 Fat metaplasia 1:03:17 Pseudovascular changes 1:07:22 Hyperpigmentation 1:09:18 Subcutis extension 1:12:09 Nevus vs Neurofibroma

[@KyrieW]

Bump! Thanks for the time stamps!

[@JMGardnerMD]

Many thanks, Ronald Chan! I've added your list to the video description and credited you for typing these up. You saved me a lot of time. Thank you!

[@shomaniv]

Thanks for the time stamps :)

[@MD.Aidaros]

Dr. Gardner, thank you so much for your amazing efforts. I am falling in love with dermpath because of your videos. Your way of teaching makes learning fun and simple. You are a true blessing for all dermpath students.

[@margaritamunozdetoro4072]

Dr. Gardner, thank you so much for this and all your videos! The idea of high quality material accesible to everyone around the world is gamechanger. You are an inspiration! Thank you for your work!

[@KingElrosTarMinyatur]

Love when you add in things not found in textbooks like "I don't add this into the diagnosis" - truly, your one of my favorite dermatopathologists!

[@JMGardnerMD]

Thank you! 🙏🏻vMy dermpath survival guide book is full of practical pearls about how to write reports and deal with complicated daily problems in dermpath. You might find it helpful. bit.ly/2Te2haB ‬

[@shomaniv]

Thank you Dr.Gardner. These lectures are of immense help and the way you have put the timestamps for longer lectures helps immensely to revise the topics.

[@JMGardnerMD]

Thank you! I’m working on adding more time stamps as well as subtitles/closed captions.

[@RaulRodriguez-sh6vb]

Now I can say I have learned and feel more comfortable when dealing with a melanocytic lesions. You have encouraged me to think about doing a Dermpath fellowship Thanks a lot

[@missknowall]

Thank you so much for another amazing video. You are a gifted teacher. Hope you continue to spread the light.

[@JMGardnerMD]

Also check out my videos on melanoma basics ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/bn-Teo2QpatrqtU ) and melanocytic immunohistochemistry ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKqxn55jgsmJp6c ). And be sure to read the disclaimer in the video description above.

[@jennas19]

thank you for posting these, so helpful!

[@AbdallaAbdein]

Thank you so much Dr Gardner. This is so helpful, you are a truly inspiration to me as an aspiring Dermatopathologist!

[@Vlad_Kowach]

thanks for sharing your knowledge. It's very helpful and interesting. Skin lesions very hard and melanocytic lesions is even harder. that's why I'm glad to find your channel. thank you doctor Gardner

[@JMGardnerMD]

Agree…They can be quite hard! Happy I could help. Also…You might like my Twitter/social media 101 guide: kikoxp.com/posts/15217. I also highly recommend creating a professional profile on KiKo (it’s free! Here’s mine: kikoxp.com/jerad_gardner1). A complete organized library of all my videos, digital slides, pics, & sample pathology reports is available here: kikoxp.com/posts/5084 (dermpath) & kikoxp.com/posts/5083 (bone/soft tissue sarcoma pathology).

[@Vlad_Kowach]

@@JMGardnerMD this links will be really useful to me. thank you!!!

[@UsamaSajidSyed]

Thank you sir! Great videos. Thank you for making dermpath as simple as a halwa (South Asian sweet dish). Love and Respect from Pakistan!

[@navodakumarasinghe8135]

Thank you very much for the wonderful lectures. Important things are explained really well. I started loving dermpath thanks to your videos!!!

[@pedromarciano2503]

congratulations but mostly thank you very much! it is amazing this opportunity to have you as a teacher! best wishes from Brazil! im now on residency program from Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP (Botucatu-Sao Paulo)

[@DrAlpanaJain]

Thank you for making the concept clear.....you explained all the features in simple way 😊

[@ShashidharVenkateshMurthy]

Great teaching Great service to global Pathology ...!

[@machteldsimpson6401]

I just found these videos ad they are extremely helpful. Thanks heaps, much appreciated :))

[@vinvinvino3176]

Thanks a lot Jerad...you have helped a lot of us general pathologists by your very educative videos!

[@mkhan7499]

I second you. Amazing video.

[@radosawwujec959]

I'm incredibly grateful for all that effort you put in those videos. I'm about to start my path residency in a month and what you say is waaaay more digestible than any textbook. What i value the most is you tell which part is important and what not as much as well as those basics that textbooks rather omit not bothering with such an "obvious" stuff. Huge thanks from Poland

[@ThisMichaelBrown]

Superb....where were you 25 years ago!? Ha....thanks man. So incredible that young (and old, ha) path folk now have access to this these incredible resources!

[@JMGardnerMD]

Thank you for the kind words. I’m working hard to make as much content as I can so that 25 years from now, hopefully no one will have to say that! Im working to teach pathologists in other sub specialty areas how to make videos and similar teaching content. My dream would be to see all of pathology freely available online to the whole world especially those who live and work in the developing world and in other places where there are limited financial and educational resources.

[@szwalsam]

Excellent teaching session like many of your videos, thank you for the time and efforts.

[@annitah2o]

Great video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your beautiful slides. Greetings from Spain.

[@evelyne7071]

As a nevus novice, I thank you. The explanation about maturation is super interesting and an important benign feature. I like the fact that melanocytes themselves are not melanoma-laden like the squames and the macrophages down below.

[@abhijeetwaghmare2794]

Best video that I have seen to clear concepts... Thanks a lot..

[@rashasamer8063]

Thank you so much for your extremely amazing effort These videos are very beneficial and have added alot to my information

[@eniomm1]

Excellent explanation, as always! Your videos have helped me a lot with my dermatopathology routine. Thank you very much, doctor Gardner.

[@tzoniaa]

Thank you for my round of applause because that was long ..... and very helpful.

[@dermatologistkhan5975]

DEAR SIR, I DNT HAVE ACCESS TO SLIDES, BUT I WATCH YOUR VIDEOS AND JUST AFTER A WEEK,I HAVE MY FINAL POST GRADUATE SLIDES ND VIVA EXAM...UPTILL NOW, I SOLVED DERMAPATH ASPECT OF EXAMS BECAUSE OF YOUR VIDEOS, NOW THE LAST BLOW AFTER A WEEK... I CANT FIND WORDS TO THANK YOU...THE BEAUTY THE SIMPLICITY YOU MAKE OUT OF THOSE BOOKISH NAMES ND TERMS WHICH ARE JUST TO CONFUSE US MORE..ALOT OF LOVE FROM A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY

[@JMGardnerMD]

Congratulations! Best of luck in your career!

[@dermatologistkhan5975]

@@JMGardnerMD I HAVE TO SAVE THIS COMMENT AS AUTOGRAPH 🙂

[@sameershrestha6171]

Your videos have made derma path look reasonable and easy. Thank you. as a dermatologist, if it is possible to show also the clinical image of the histological sections that you were describing will be more add on and fruitful.

[@stellagarvie897]

I can't emphasize how helpful this video is... Especially, considering that melanocytic lesions are generally a horror of a doctor in training. Thank you so much! Great work.

[@shomaniv]

It will be great Dr. Gardner if you can kindly put a video about different types of nevi and melanoma. Thanks alot

[@JMGardnerMD]

Already started this. I’ve made a playlist of my melanocytic videos that I will add to over time as I create new ones: kzbin.info/aero/PLkuwOd2JcINM5tNZK6eDGNDxlW1d_WzWO. Desmoplastic & spindle cell melanoma are coming up soon on my video to-do list.

[@monamohsenabdo752]

this video is really amazing..thank you so much for every single info in this masterpiece.

[@Maryam_77777]

The ultimate way of teaching sir. Hats off to you.

[@grigonius]

You are a great teacher dr. Gardner! ty for all the informative videos

[@logancosta3419]

Thank you, that was a very helpfull video! Hugs from Brazil

[@lakshmiD89]

thank u so much for making these life saving videos!!

[@kylevincisolano9920]

Thank you doctor! A great help in pathology residency! cheers from the Philippines! Godbless

[@ayeayewin8690]

Thank you Sir. I like all your lectures.

[@florianburkhart8090]

Thank you for the exceptionally great teaching video! It gives priceless help for me, getting deeper in dermpath as a dermatology resident.

[@gladysaloyomola8649]

Loved it.! Thank you this is wonderful very nice for learning.

[@christinagoveas5003]

Amazing Lecture Dr Gardner :)

[@engvoc5318]

Thank you so much. I learn a lot from your videos everyday

[@niallicious]

Thanks a true treasure ❤️. Looking forward to the video on dysplastic naevi , would be nice to just see your approach to a variety of dysplastic naevi, perhaps touching on more difficult cases on the borderline between dysplastic naevi and melanoma.

[@alzahraakhalil142]

Many thanks, excellent explanation

[@chrisphillips8044]

These are all fantastic videos - thank you

[@Zahra-mo4bg]

Thank you so much Dr gardner

[@SadafMohajerani-cl1qe]

Thanks a lot , very useful and comprehensive 🙏👏

[@OmarFarishider]

Very informative and helpful presentation thanks alote

[@mohitrajpal266]

Thanku sir for your guidance I feel extremely grateful to you

[@pedrorodriguez9017]

Many thanks for your amazing effort, really really helpful.

[@vikaspawar6847]

It's an amazing video sir. Got the excellent information . Thank you v much.

[@gordonchristophertubo3164]

This is just... The best. Edit: This is my 3rd watch btw.

[@shalinikk5832]

Thank you so much for the amazing teaching 👍

[@jsegalbts]

thanks jared! your videos look beautiful and I appreciate the new look of the youtube tags.

[@JMGardnerMD]

Thanks for the feedback! I like the new thumbnail images. Found a nice website that lets me make them easily for free. Adobe Spark.

[@SandhyaRamachandran]

Tanq soo much...great one Jerad...keep it up... 1) at 33:17 do we see an intranuclear inclusion in a melanocyte ? 2) Does the feature "symmetry" apply only to shave biopsies as we get most of the lesion... how can we apply it to punch biopsies please?

[@DuaaHelal]

Greetings from Egypt Thank u for the great informative video

[@sararashid8761]

Very very helpful lecture , thank you so much.

[@SandhyaRamachandran]

u hv explained beautifully that the melanocyte produces but the keratinocyte stores the melanin pigment. This applies to keratinocytes in the epidermis. In the pigmented nevus esp at 37:57 the deeply pigmented cells at the tips of the rete .. are they keratinocytes or melanocytes ..please.. at 1:08:24 they are explained but those are huge melanocytes..

[@gerikn20]

Great job again! Thank you so much!

[@belinda58sews29]

Great video! Thanks.

[@yasirmohammedali]

Hi ... Thank you again for the amazing videos

[@JMGardnerMD]

Thank you! A complete organized library of all my videos, digital slides, pics, & sample pathology reports is available here: kikoxp.com/posts/5084 (dermpath) & kikoxp.com/posts/5083 (bone/soft tissue sarcoma pathology).

[@DocRicForensicSpecialist]

Thank you Dr.😃

[@adelh5417]

thank you professor. can you tell me about uvea melanoma

[@ahmed_atef_agour]

Thanks for this valuable lecture.

[@ikbalelkholy558]

Thanks Dr Gardner very much

[@mohamedjassim731]

Very useful content Dr.Jerad. It was like a treat for me as a resident. Appreciative.. Good Job. Thank yo so so much. Expecting more regarding basics. My doubt is that .. 1) Is that necessary to comment on report about the involvment of inked margin by nevi. Is there any significance? 2) What is the significance of Symmetry? If we find asymmetry for example? What should we think of?

[@JMGardnerMD]

1. Yes, I usually comment if nevus involves edge of biopsy or not. I don’t think it is required, and some Dermpaths do not comment on this. I do because most of the dermatologists I work with want to know this info. 2. Asymmetry is a clue for possible melanoma, melanoma arising in nevus, or two different melanocytic lesions colliding with one another. I have seen many benign nevi that had asymmetry but I like to stop and look closer when I see this feature to make sure I’m not missing melanoma.

[@nisreenfidda6477]

Please make a video for nevi with cytotologic and architectural atypia/ dysplastic nevi

[@eduardob3036]

Thank you so much for an excellent video!

[@AhmedGamalPost]

Amazing video I am waiting for the next video thank you . Prof

[@elipetrova8347]

Great video! Excellent explanation! I have a question! I had a case with a polypoid lesion with spindel cells, small vessels and a lot of mast cells. The spindel cells were positive for SOX10 and S100 but negative for Melan A. At the same time only in one slide there was a part of a hair follicle and type B melanocytes around it that stained for SOX10, S100 and Melan A. How would you interpret this - neurofibroma or neurotized neavus?

[@sameeraansar1343]

Thank you! Could you please do a topic on how to differentiate on cutaneous lymphocytic infiltrate Vs Lymphomas?

[@christoferberganza1316]

Jerad can you add macroscopic view to your presentations? 👀

[@jessmilt9403]

Thanks!!! Your videos are awesome

[@virginialaborda7566]

Me gustaría y necesito esta información en español. Por favor.

[@kinludovico]

Thank you Dr. Gardner, excellent start to approach the melanocytic lesions :). I have a question: is the term dysplasia designed to describe the abnormal architecture and the term atypia to describe the abnormal cellularity? i.e. does the problematic "dysplastic nevus" consist of only architectural dysplasia or both architectural dysplasia and cellular atypia, or should we simply forget this terminology? kind regards.

[@JMGardnerMD]

Haha. You got right to the tough questions! I will do a video about this topic in near future (although I'm already dreading arguments from various factions). In short, I think that dysplastic nevus is supposed to have certain architectural features and cytologic atypia. I can find at least focal cytologic "atypia" in a wide variety of different nevi; it's very subjective. Severe cytologic atypia concerns me much more, of course. I use the term "dysplastic nevus" because I was trained that way and the derms I work with understand the term, but I do not believe that most of these lesions are truly dysplasia or malignant precursors any more than any other nevus. I certainly understand why some people are adamantly against the term, but I don't expect that it will disappear anytime in my career, as it has already been entrenched for so long.

[@SandhyaRamachandran]

@@JMGardnerMD Thank you Jerad! for ur excellent videos..I watch n re-watch them..they are absolute pearls! I heard in Dr McKee's talk:"... If (architectural atypia but)no cytologic atypia, then called a Clarke’s nevus (WHO) ..Sometimes, a b9 nevus can have a host response, WHO calls that also as a Clarke’s nevus..." :) So Clarke's nevus adds to the confusion ; does it bridge a b9 nevus & a dysplastic one ? and can we lump it as a b9 nevus? I'm already hvng to deal with Active nevus too... :):)

[@tonychen4298]

How can I differentiate between a neurofibromas vs a nevus with extensive neurotization, assuming that a ”conventional“ area of nevus is not obviously present? Does the presence of mast cells sway you towards a neurofibroma? Or can you see mast cells in neurotised naevi too? Thanks

[@JMGardnerMD]

Firstly, they are both benign so the distinction is rarely of clinical importance. But even in extensively neurotized nevi, there are still some round or epithelioid nevoid melanocytes (often in superficial dermis) that can be seen on H&E. If I don’t see any of those, then I call it neurofibroma. If I really want to know, I do MART-1, although I have seen loss of expression in the neurotized areas of nevi. Mast cells can be seen in both entities so I don’t think of them as a specific feature of neurofibroma.

[@masoudmireskandari3178]

Thank you so much for this excellent video. I have two questions: many pathologist comment about the completeness of excision of melanocytic lesions in their reports. Considering the benign nature of the lesions, do you find it necessary? The second questions: do you have a plan for making a video about the application and usefulness of immunohistochemistry in melanocytic lesions?

[@JMGardnerMD]

Thanks! 1. Yes, I usually do give that info by saying "not extending to section edges" or "transected (margins positive)" on the biopsy report for most melanocytic lesions. Most of the dermatologists I work with prefer to know. But I'm also happy to leave that information off if requested, as well. For BCC and SCC I do not routinely include "margin" status. Here's a paper we wrote that explains why: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27116089. 2. Yes I plan to cover melanocytic immunostains in a video in the near future.

[@sirik3639]

Thanks a lot sir.. you taught me so much today that i havent learnt in my pg..no words..! could you please teach us bullous lesions too..?

[@JMGardnerMD]

Glad I could help! I’ll try to cover bullous sometime in future.

[@joyreang7099]

thank you. how I wish to work under you. wow!

[@hayder5391]

Thank you for this nice video👍👍

[@البناءالمنهجي-ن2ذ]

Doc, could you please refer us to other channels for nondermal pathology sections?

[@JMGardnerMD]

my playlist of other pathology KZbin & Kiko video channels: kikoxp.com/posts/15619

[@البناءالمنهجي-ن2ذ]

@@JMGardnerMD So Thankful Dr. Gardner

[@zainabnasir8943]

So melanocytes that are deeper are more mature , right ?

[@anupambrahma5659]

thanks a lot. cleared my concepts

[@goofymania84]

I had got my results back from having a biopsy of my mole under my left foot and it turned out to be junctional nevus as non cancerous but that medical term is only for children and young adult and I'm only 37 years old and I'm an African American. I had found out that junctional is only for lighter skin complexion and I'm brown skinned . I'm hoping that I wasn't misdiagnosed as benign when that term is only for young adult range. I've looked on Google for research

[@JMGardnerMD]

I see junctional nevus in middle aged and even elderly adults all the time. So that alone is not a worrisome diagnosis. If you are worried about your diagnosis you could always request having the case sent to a dermatopathology expert for a second opinion. Please discuss with your dermatologist so they can help you decide on whether or not that would be helpful in your situation. Best wishes for health and healing.

[@goharrehman7710]

please do a lecture about stains

[@DerrickAdamsdermatologist]

excellent video. thank you

[@نهىسامي-ج4ج]

Great channel

[@bouhnikdjalil7094]

Thank you so much, it's verry important :-)

[@arahmanabdelrahman6661]

I am very thankful to you

[@ALIWARISVIGHIO87]

Great for students.

[@Phatchariphafirst]

Why do we need bleaching in case of the melanocytic lesions?

[@JMGardnerMD]

I rarely use bleaching. But it can sometimes be helpful to better visualize the nuclei in melanocytic lesions that have very heavy amounts of pigment. I think it’s been a couple of years since I last used bleaching on a case.

[@Phatchariphafirst]

@@JMGardnerMD thank you so much🙏

[@antoiroets7405]

Great video thanks!

[@kevinmoreal5200]

You are a legend!

[@hayder5391]

Very informative…like👍

[@swathicheruku4516]

How to watch dese videos sir

[@JMGardnerMD]

A complete organized library of all my videos, digital slides, pics, & sample pathology reports is available here: kikoxp.com/posts/5084 (dermpath) & kikoxp.com/posts/5083 (bone/soft tissue sarcoma pathology).

[@drngpf1]

Thank you so much for a great video.. do you believe in IHC stains eg. Ki67 or HMB45 to differentiate between benign nevus and melanoma? ☺

[@DoctorSpicy]

Janice histopathology Ki 67 always.

[@JMGardnerMD]

I occasionally use Ki-67/MART-1 double label immunostain in some difficult cases where there are atypical features and a significant amount of dermal melanocytes are present. When very low or very high, it can sometimes provide some useful additional information to take into account when deciding on the final diagnosis. But I essentially never use the Ki-67 result by itself to decide if a lesion is nevus versus melanoma. I have seen HMB-45 used to help assess maturation pattern, but I personally find it challenging to interpret in most cases and thus of relatively limited value for my practice. Again, others may have very different opinions or practice patterns from me, and that's ok. I'm just sharing how I currently think about these things.

[@drngpf1]

thank you for your explanation and your approach in dealing with melanocytic lesion. looking forward your coming video.

[@mikexue5104]

which hospital has the most fame to remove congenital nevus in the world?

[@manarm8704]

Thank u so much 🌹