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June K. Robinson, MD

JAMA. 1997;278(20):1693-1699.

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Ms G is a 28-year-old single health care office worker who has had 2 abnormal moles removed in the past. She lives in greater Boston and is engaged to be married. Her health insurance is through a managed care plan in eastern Massachusetts.

In 1994, a physician with whom Ms G works noted a "funnylooking" mole on her left ear and suggested that she have it evaluated. Ms G sought consultation from Dr V, a dermatologist, who noted more than 50 nevi over her body and 2 abnormal-appearing moles: one on her left ear and another on her anterior abdominal wall. Physical examination revealed each mole had the appearance of a dysplastic nevus. After a biopsy in October 1994, the ear lesion was noted to be a "lentiginous compound nevus with architectural features of a dysplastic nevus; the cytologic atypia is mild." The anterior abdominal wall lesion was . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Dr Robinson is Professor of Dermatology and Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill.

Footnotes
This conference took place at the Dermatology Grand Rounds of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, East Campus, on July 10, 1997.

Reprints: Erin E. Hartman, MS, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, East Campus, 330 Brookline Ave, LY318, Boston, MA 02215.

Clinical Crossroads at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is produced and edited by Thomas L. Delbanco, MD, and Jennifer Daley, MD; Erin E. Hartman, MS, is managing editor. Clinical Crossroads section editor: Margaret A. Winker, MD, Senior Editor, JAMA.

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