Description and Hystopatology Type of Nevus Pigmentosus in Dustira Hospital and Cibabat Hospital Cimahi
Aditya Yudha Pratama, Pisi Lukitto, Lina Damayanti

Medical Faculty, Universitas Jenderal Achmad Yani

Abstract

Nevus pigmentosus is benign skin tumor which is the most common disease that has been found in many clinics. It comes from nevus cells that can produce melanin. Some types of nevus, such as junctional and compound nevus, can cause malignant melanoma which is a life-threatening skin cancer. Some risk factors that can cause nevus pigmentosus are age, genetic factors, and the exposure of UV light. The objection of this research is to describe the patients of nevus pigmentosus based on some risk factors such as age, sex, the location of nevus, and histopathology type. Descriptive method was used and the objects of this research are medical records from nevus pigmentosus patients that has been treated by excisional surgery and has been examined by histopathology test from the 1st of January 2011 until the 31st of December 2015. The medical records are obtained from Dustira Hospital and Cibabat Hospital, Cimahi. The results of this research showed that there were 55 cases of nevus pigmentosus found in 2011 - 2015 with 21 cases found in Dustira Hospital and 35 cases found in Cibabat Hospital, nevus pigmentosus mostly found in individuals aged 21-30 (25,45%), mostly found in female patients (65,45%), mostly located in the face and scalp (90,90%), and the most common histopathological type was intradermal nevus (94,55%).

Keywords: Nevus Pigmentosus, Histophatological Type

Topic: Epidemology