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Had a small pink papule on my back. derm looked at it with dermascopy and said it looked like a normal inflamed mole. biopsy came back as a lichen planus keratosis. does this make sense even though dermascope said it was a mole?
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Yes: histological bx is the major determining factor. question is...if dermoscopy revealed a benign lesion, it's curious that it was even biopsied and not just followed up on subsequent visits?
Answered 11/16/2018
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