Mystery Lesions
April 27, 2012 | 11:30 AM
By Susan Phillips
Susan Phillips / StateImpactPA
Dr. Amy Pare at her practice in suburban Pittsburgh.
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Doctor Pare first met Edna Moten six years ago. Moten came to her because she had skin lesions. They were hard and thick, and sometimes they looked like boils.
?We didn?t know what they were,? said Pare.
They were mostly on Moten?s face, and hands.
?We just removed them because they looked like cancers,? said Dr. Pare. ?They looked like squamous cell carcinomas, they look like lymphomas, but they?re not. You didn?t want to miss anything, you didn?t want to miss any cancers so you would call up a pathologist and you would ask them and then they would refer it on to somebody else.?
Doctor Pare sent biopsies to several pathologists. She got the same results.
?It?s not a lymphoma,? said Pare. It?s not a leukemia, it?s not skin cancer. It?s a local inflammatory response. An inflammation is your body?s response to an irritant. That?s all we can say.?...
