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    • December 10, 2015 at 7:37 am
    ChristianDude1990
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    Hi I had 2 moles removed, one behind my ear and one on my leg. Please can someone explain in lamens terms what these results mean?

     

    MACROSCOPY

    A hairy excision of skin, 0.4cn.

    An excision of skin, 0.9 x 0.7cm. The epidermis contained a pigmented lesion, O . 6cm.

    MACROSCOPIC EXAMINATION PERFORMED BY DR E RAAN MICROSCOPY

    SPSCIMZN 1 :

    The excisional biopsy displays skin with pigmented intradermal naevus. The epidermis displays irregular acanthosis. The dermis contains nests of pigmented naevus cells and single naevus cells descending the underlying dermis with

    maturation. No dysplasia or neoplastic changes are present.

    SP3CIMSN 2 :

    The excisional biopsy displays skin with architecture distorted pigmented compound naevus

    The epidermis displays irregular acanthosis. Located at the epidermal/ dermal junction are single pigmented naevas cells and nests of naevus cells

    representing junctional activity. The papillary dermis displays lamellar and

    eosinophilic fibroplasia. The dermis contains pigmented naevus cells arranged in nests and single lying. Free lying melanophages are present in the dermis.

    No atypical mitoses or pagetoid infiltration of the epidermis is identified.

    The features are consistent with architecture distorted pigmented compound

    naevus .

    DIAGNOSIS

    SKIN FROM RIGHT SKIN ?ROM LET LOWER LEG

    PIGMENTED NAEVUS.

    ARCHIECTURE DISTORTED COMPOUND PIGWNED NABV3S .

     

    My doctor just said the one on my leg was "weird" but there is no cancer on either mole. What does he mean by weird and what does this report actually say?

     

    Thanks in advance!

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      • December 10, 2015 at 3:05 pm
      Janner
      Participant

      #1 – benign mole

      #2 – dysplastic Nevis.  Not melanoma.  They don't list the degree of dysplasia but only mention architectural disorder and no cellular dysplasia.  So basically, it's a mole with some weird "layout" but the cells themselves look normal.  Probably unlikely to ever change into melanoma (most dysplastic nevi don't). 

      Both are removed and neither were cancerous so no worries now.

      • December 10, 2015 at 3:05 pm
      Janner
      Participant

      #1 – benign mole

      #2 – dysplastic Nevis.  Not melanoma.  They don't list the degree of dysplasia but only mention architectural disorder and no cellular dysplasia.  So basically, it's a mole with some weird "layout" but the cells themselves look normal.  Probably unlikely to ever change into melanoma (most dysplastic nevi don't). 

      Both are removed and neither were cancerous so no worries now.

      • December 10, 2015 at 3:05 pm
      Janner
      Participant

      #1 – benign mole

      #2 – dysplastic Nevis.  Not melanoma.  They don't list the degree of dysplasia but only mention architectural disorder and no cellular dysplasia.  So basically, it's a mole with some weird "layout" but the cells themselves look normal.  Probably unlikely to ever change into melanoma (most dysplastic nevi don't). 

      Both are removed and neither were cancerous so no worries now.

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