Nevi of average size can be removed surgically.

Surgeon removes the full-thickness pigmentary skin with a lancet. Removed skin is sent to a laboratory to be analyzed. Closure of the loss of tissue is more or less delicate from topography to topography : easy on abdomen, neck, forehead, but difficult on shoulders, back, skull, foots, nose.

 

Right : result 6 months after removing of a great naevus of the left cheek. Redness will disappear progressively during the 6 next months and the thin scar will become very discrete.

 

Right: result 6 months after removing a a great naevus of the left cheek.

 

Plastic surgeon must have to practive a large undermining, around the loss of tissue, to benefit from the elasticity of nearness skin, and to obtain a less tension closure.

 

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