Long story made short in the early spring of 2015 I noticed a tiny pink/brown, perfectly round mole on my thigh. several dermatologists told me it was normal. I was 34 when I noticed this mole. In January of 2016 I asked one of them to remove the mole and they did a shave biopsy. At this time it was about 3mm-4mm. I had constantly been poking and prodding at it because it was bothering me since it did not look like any other moles. It did not grow at all or change colors.
I had to return and have margins removed. I forget how much skin they took but I have a nice scar from the removal. The dermatopathologist told me this was an atypical spitz nevus. He said that the margins were clear and that the shave biopsy got it all.
I had not thought about the mole until I saw an article about a lady who had much larger mole removed, I believe 9-10 mm, that was changing. Her initial diagnosis was an atypical spitz nevus but then a short time later she had a swollen lymph node and it was diagnosed as a spitzoid melanoma by a specialist. The article explained how sometimes they screw up the diagnosis of an atypical spitz and melanoma.
I am trying to put my mind at ease somewhat. I noticed this in the spring of 2015 and it is almost two years later. If mine was a melanoma would something else have popped up ? Like a swollen lymph node etc ? Nothing has changes on my scar and I am perfectly healthy.
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