You go home for the holidays after your first semester of nursing school, and your grandma tells you that the doctor removed a n
evus from her left scapular region. What procedure did she have done?
1 answer:
A "nevus" is normally known as a mole. In anatomy, the scapular region is known as the shoulder blade ( the bone that connects the humerus with the clavicle- picture attached).
The procedure she had it done was a simple surgical excision. The nevus is cut down and the skin near it, is stiched, leaving a small scar.
Most of the times, the reason to remove a large nevus is preventing from melanoma risk. However, many patients choose to have them removed due to aesthetic reasons.
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