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To answer your main question, yes melanoma can present under the skin. Hello, i've been diagnosed with stage 1b acral melanoma and am going to have wle and slnb next month. Was wondering what your recovery times were like for the wide local excision and sentinel lymph node biopsy.
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The wle is under my little toe, which is a tricky I do, my dr has no idea of what it is or why it happens. After my appointment last week where i was told that melanoma was highly likely in a mole that i had punch biopsied, the pathology report came back with junctional.
He said it could have been an incomplete removal, a completely new melanoma, or micro cells that were left behind that couldn’t have been detected initially.
Am having mine done at lee moffitt (dr. I took photos before during and after both times. All medical decisions should be made in. In 2644 combined patients from two most recent trials,.
In fact, patients whose melanoma lacked ulceration apparently derived no benefit from interferon therapy. When i was a teen i had a mole that once a year hardened up and fell off. I was treated as if. Subcutaneous lumps or bumps right near a melanoma excision site are a common form of.
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Or is this a suspected melanoma? A shave should not be done on a suspected melanoma as they are shaves and are not as deep as a punch. After being diagnosed recently with melanoma again, first time in 2017, i'm recovering from a wide excision and skin graft which i had 9 weeks ago.
