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Skin Lesion Home Care: Warning Signs
Notify your doctor if you have a skin lesion and any of the following:
  • Worsening skin swelling
  • Worsening skin tenderness
  • Worsening skin redness
  • Increase in size of the lesion
  • New mole in someone older than 40
  • Moles with the following:
    • Asymmetry: one side does not look like the other Images
    • Bleeding or cracking Images
    • Inconsistent coloration Images
    • Irregular margins: borders with jagged or notched edges Images
    • New skin lump in any location Images
    • Rapid change in size or shape Images
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Last Updated: Nov 5, 2008  References
Authors: Stephen J. Schueler, MD; John H. Beckett, MD; D. Scott Gettings, MD
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