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Pre-operative photograph showing swelling on the right upper eyelid
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Examination of the patient revealed soft, well-defined swelling over the right upper eyelid [Figure 1a and b].
Photograph showing the size and the extent of the nevus
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The lesion over the right upper eyelid was excised preserving a margin of 1 mm at the lid margin [Figure 2a and b] and the skin cover was provided by a full-thickness skin graft obtained from right post-auricular region which was defatted and the dermis trimmed to reduce the bulkiness of the graft so that the cosmetic as well as functional outcome would be better [Figure 3a and b].
Complete surgical excision of the lesion
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The lesion over the right upper eyelid was excised preserving a margin of 1 mm at the lid margin [Figure 2a and b] and the skin cover was provided by a full-thickness skin graft obtained from right post-auricular region which was defatted and the dermis trimmed to reduce the bulkiness of the graft so that the cosmetic as well as functional outcome would be better [Figure 3a and b].
Photograph showing completely excised surgical specimen
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The graft take-up over the recipient site was 100% with excellent colour match [Figure 4a and b].
Photograph showing full-thickness graft harvested from the right post-auricular region
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Histopathology revealed varying proportions of melanocytic nevus cells only within the dermis [Figure 5].