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  2. Lipoma - Wikipedia

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    A fibrolipoma is a lipoma with focal areas of large amounts of fibrous tissue. A sclerotic lipoma is a predominantly fibrous lesion with focal areas of fat. [12] Neural fibrolipomas are overgrowths of fibro-fatty tissue along a nerve trunk, which often leads to nerve compression. [7]: 625

  3. Skin biopsy - Wikipedia

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    This excisional biopsy is often done with a narrow surgical margin to make sure the deepest thickness of the melanoma is given before prognosis is decided. However, as many melanoma-in-situs are large and on the face, a physician will often choose to do multiple small punch biopsies before committing to a large excision for diagnostic purpose ...

  4. What You Should Never, Ever Do If You Have a Lipoma ... - AOL

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  5. I didn't know what I needed to know about skin cancer. That ...

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    A whole lot of cutting going on. On surgery day, the injections to anesthetize the procedure site stung, but good. Once the area was numbed, Dr. Gathings went to work.

  6. Seborrheic keratosis - Wikipedia

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    A study examining over 4,000 biopsied skin lesions identified clinically as seborrheic keratoses showed 3.1% were malignancies. Two-thirds of those were squamous cell carcinoma. [11] To date, the gold standard in the diagnosis of seborrheic keratosis is represented by the histolopathologic analysis of a skin biopsy. [12]

  7. Cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma - Wikipedia

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    The performance of a shave biopsy (see skin biopsy) might not acquire enough information for a diagnosis. An inadequate biopsy might be read as actinic keratosis with follicular involvement. A deeper biopsy down to the dermis or subcutaneous tissue might reveal the true cancer. An excision biopsy is ideal, but not practical in most cases.

  8. Woman diagnosed with melanoma at 28 has 100 suspicious ... - AOL

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    Theresa Kurtz was diagnosed with melanoma after her mother died of skin cancer. Doctors have removed and biopsied 100 suspicious moles on her body.

  9. List of skin conditions - Wikipedia

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    Hibernoma (fetal lipoma, lipoma of embryonic fat, lipoma of immature adipose tissue) Hypertrophic scar; Immunosuppression-associated Kaposi sarcoma; Infantile digital fibromatosis (inclusion body fibromatosis, infantile digital myofibroblastoma, Reye tumor) Infantile hemangiopericytoma (congenital hemangiopericytoma)