Diagnosis: Mongolian spot
Description: Blue area over buttock cleft
Morphology: Hyperpigmentation
Site: Buttocks
Sex: M
Age: 2
Type: Clinical
Submitted By: Ian McColl
Differential DiagnosisHistory:
Lumbo sacral dermal melanocytosis is present at birth due to a deep failed migration of embryonic nevus cells to the skin surface. A minor variant like this will clear by aged 5 but more extensive variants can persist indefinately. There can be multiple lesions. They do not develope malignancy.