Spitz Nevi in near 13 year old
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Spitz Nevi in near 13 year old

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    • July 11, 2017 at 8:45 pm
    ruthstoops
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      Hello all – what a phenomenal group you are and I apologize for posting on a very benign-seeming result, but I know young people who have died of melanoma. My son is "moley" and has a dad, aunt and great aunt who've had melanomas. He had one spot on his forehead that looked too black to me and the derm wasn't too eager to remove it. My husband said, we don't care if there's a small scar, let's get it off. It's come back as a Spitz nevi. I have seen some conflicting things about Spitz and I'm wondering what my vigilance on his spots should be now, and whether I should get a second look on his sample. This derm was lovely but I'm not sure she was very up on anything.  TIA! 

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        • July 12, 2017 at 6:14 pm
        MTCowhand
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          Hi…this is my first post to this forum, but having been recently diagnosed (Stage 2b, desmoplastic melanoma), I came across a fair amount of info on Spitz nevi in my initial research on DM.  There was a time when  Spitz nevi were sometimes misdiagnosed for melanoma and melanoma for Spitz nevi.  This does not happen as frequently now due to vastly improved diagnostics, but given your family's history, a lovely but possibly challenged dermatologist, and the infinitesimal probability that the path lab messed up, I would definitely seek another opinion. You should leave nothing to chance with this disease.  You should ask your dermatologist for the path report and the originla tissue sample/slides (which she will either have or can obtain from the path lab) and go from there.  I hope the nevi is reconfirmed for you if you go the second opinion route. 

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