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Is a wide excision surgery of a mole usually done in a doctors office just using lidocaine for numbing?

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Yes: It certainly can be and often is.

Answered 9/29/2017

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Yes: Yes, generally moles are excised on the office with local anesthesia like Lidocaine but it all depends on how large the mole is and any comorbidities that a patient may have like severe systemic and life threatening illnesses.

Answered 6/26/2014

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Yes, but: Why a wide excision? Melanoma ; sometimes other cancers should have wide excision. A benign mole is removed with conservative excision. Why is the mole to be removed? Has a diagnostic biopsy already been done? Does the dr think it is malignant?

Answered 2/11/2014

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