Hi and thank you for this great question! I agree with the physicians who have posted before me in that you have a few options, specifically a shave excision or full thickness excision. A shave excision, although better from a scarring standpoint, does not definitively remove the mole and...
The amount of lidocaine with epinephrine used for mole removal is less and more slowly absorbed than what is used in dental procedures and thus is usually well tolerated.
If after discussing this with your dermatologist there is reason for concern,
plain lidocaine without epinephrine can be used.
Hi James,
Breaking it down etymologically, "cytologic" basically means "of or relating to cells" and "atypia" means, well, "atypical." In the setting of a nevus, this means that there wasn't a significant proportion of the cells that showed an abnormal appearance consistent...