What is a Spitz nevus?
A Spitz nevus is a type of mole. It also may be called a nevus, Spitz lesion, juvenile melanoma, benign juvenile melanoma, or spindle and epithelioid cell nevus of Reed. It is a group of nevus cells in the layers of the skin. Most people get moles during their life. A Spitz nevus can look very much a like a serious kind of skin cancer called melanoma. But a Spitz nevus doesn’t act like a melanoma. It doesn’t cause the damage to the body that a melanoma does. Most of the time there is only one lesion and it is the common type. There also are more rare types, and these are treated differently since they can be more like melanoma.
