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Atypical mole question

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    • June 11, 2016 at 8:02 pm
    Scared99
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      Noticed a mole about a year ago on my leg.  It looked brown, was very small maybe 3-4mm but was a perfect circle and shiny.  I picked at it and poked at it for a year and it began to look pink, it never grew or changed.  

       

      I i had my dermatologist remove it. He used a shave biopsy. I got a call two weeks later saying i needed to come back in.  The Dermatopathologist diagnosed it as a spitz Nevus.   I know these moles are oddities and the doctor told me mine really didn't concern the dermatopathologist.  This was at a rather large practice.  So they removed more. I believe 4mm-5mm margins and I got the word yesteday that no cells were detected and the original shave got it all. Is this a large enough excision ? 

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        • June 14, 2016 at 11:54 pm
        jennunicorn
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          No cells detected, so no need to worry, that's probably standard margin for spitz. Melanoma in situ get 0.5cm-1cm; 0.5cm=5mm. Skin is clear of cells so it's taken care of. Basal cell usually get 3mm-5mm margins, and those are cancer cells, so for a non cancerous lesion what you got was good.

          • June 14, 2016 at 11:54 pm
          jennunicorn
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            No cells detected, so no need to worry, that's probably standard margin for spitz. Melanoma in situ get 0.5cm-1cm; 0.5cm=5mm. Skin is clear of cells so it's taken care of. Basal cell usually get 3mm-5mm margins, and those are cancer cells, so for a non cancerous lesion what you got was good.

            • June 14, 2016 at 11:54 pm
            jennunicorn
            Participant

              No cells detected, so no need to worry, that's probably standard margin for spitz. Melanoma in situ get 0.5cm-1cm; 0.5cm=5mm. Skin is clear of cells so it's taken care of. Basal cell usually get 3mm-5mm margins, and those are cancer cells, so for a non cancerous lesion what you got was good.

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