Help deciphering pathology report, please!
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Help deciphering pathology report, please!

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    • June 1, 2017 at 4:41 pm
    Diana Page
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      A biopsy was done on a suspicious mole during my last three-month checkup after a melanoma diagnosis last November. The report reads:

      "Dysplastic compound nevus with mild atypical over dermal scar; edges involved. 

      Microscopic description:  sections show a compound melanocycytic proliferation with irregularity of the pattern of nests and cells at the dermal-epidermal junction. There is a variable host response. Some of the melanocytes are atypical.  Overall the degree of atypica is mild. There is a focal dense fibrosis, consistent with scar. The edges are involved."

      Could anyone help me understand this?

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