hair nevus
MONDO:0020980Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names hair nevus yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A usually benign congenital skin growth that is often pigmented and sometimes develop coarse surface hair. There is a lifetime risk of transformation to malignant melanoma which varies depending on the size of the lesion.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0020980), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
2 names
Resolves to: hair nevus
- Also called
- hairy nevusnevoid hypertrichosis