Skin lesion treatment focuses on evaluating and managing growths present at birth or acquired over time, helping ensure accurate diagnosis and appropriate care tailored to each child’s specific condition.
Choosing Your Child’s Treatment
The location, size, and diagnosis are important for making informed decisions about how to manage these lesions. Many lesions are benign. Some lesions are pre-cancerous and have a risk of becoming cancerous as children grow. Some lesions are worrisome and should be addressed quickly.
Other lesions have characteristic patterns of growth and shrinking as children grow.
It is important to understand the natural history of all these lesions and masses. What will happen if nothing is done? What are the options to remove them early? Much of the decision-making process depends on the expected diagnosis, lesion size, and location.
