Dark spots that appear on your mouth or lips have severalcauses. By far, the most common cause is known as a melanotic macule or non-cancerous hyperpigmentation of a mucous membrane. This occurs when one of your mucous membranes produces more pigment (melanin) than typical. Your lesion may ...
On clinical examination, an irregular pigmented macule of two colours was seen (Figure 1). Differential diagnoses included solar lentigo, flat seborrhoeic keratosis, pigmented actinic keratosis and, most importantly, recurrent lentigo maligna.P. Guitera...
Gastrointestinal (GI)bleedingis a symptom of a disorder in your digestive tract. The blood often appears in stool or vomit but isn't always visible, though it may cause the stool to look black or tarry. The level of bleeding can range from mild to severe and can be life-threatening. Wh...
The area around the abscess is numbed using a local anesthetic medication. A small cut is made to drain the pus. Antibiotics: A large abscess (more than 5 cm) needs a proper course of antibiotics before and after the surgical drainage. How do you drain an abscess at home? One can try...
Removal of a melanotic macule can create a small depression or scar in the tissue. If the lesion is especially large or irregular in shape, this may be noticeable. In other patients, the tissue will heal well and may leave little to no sign of the lesion behind. After removal, patients ...