About ten years ago, I had a mole on my face examined. They shaved off part of it and it came back benign. I’ve had this funky pigmentation left over ever since. It’s almost like the leftover of the mole, but it’s irregularly shaped. Recently, Ive just been nervous that maybe the irregular shape should be concerning?
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Thank you so much for your question. I tell my patients that it is normal to feel a bump or firmness underneath the tissue where a lesion was excised. This can be present for even up to a year after surgery. As the scar matures over time, this firmness usually resolves on its own, and...
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