…front , and this is why the margin must be included in the freeze. Contraindications Absolute: Suspected melanoma or any other pigmented lesion of uncertain diagnosis…

…Suspicion of another diagnosis: gout, a felon (pulp abscess), herpetic whitlow ( never incise a herpetic whitlow ), subungual melanoma (a pigmented longitudinal nail band that is…

…out to be a melanoma can make the Breslow thickness unmeasurable and staging therefore impossible; a superficial punch in a case of bullous dermatosis misses…