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Hypothetically, an association between the higher prevalence of melanocytic capsular nevi and the predisposition for melanoma may be likely.
Although, these melanocytic capsular nevi appear benign morphologically, a low probability that they may represent subtle metastases was also considered.
The sentinel lymph nodes of melanocytic nevi were from different sites and none were from the axillary region.
None of the 81 sections of sentinel lymph nodes from 30 cases of mammary carcinoma demonstrated benign capsular melanocytic nevi.
Clinically, TYRP-1 is thought to be important as a melanoma antigen that is highly antigenic to cytotoxic T cells, providing a potential target for melanoma vaccine development [ 16 ] . TYRP-1 appears to be less expressed in advanced primary lesions and metastases of human cutaneous melanoma and uveal melanoma [ 32 ] . Primary melanoma samples express TYRP-1 transcripts at higher levels than melanoma metastases [ 33 ] , and IHC analysis of malignant melanocytic lesions has shown that the invasive cells of primary melanomas are TYRP-1-negative [ 34 ] .