Surgical excision is the standard of care. Some individuals advocate the use of hair removal laser for the treatment of<unk>  nevi. While this is likely safe and effective for small<unk>  nevus, laser removal for larger lesions might pose a liability for the laser surgeon if malignancy developed from a deep (dermal) component of the nevus that is not reached by the laser. Repigmentation after laser treatment of<unk>  nevi or superficial curettage supports this concern. Many are surgically removed for aesthetics and relief of psychosocial burden, but larger ones are also excised for prevention of cancer, although the benefit is impossible to assess for any individual patient. Proliferative nodules are usually biopsied and are regularly but not systematically found to be benign. Estimates of transformation into melanoma vary from 2-42% in the literature, but are most commonly considered to be at the low end of that spectrum due to early observer bias.
Congenital melanocytic nevus
Connective tissue nevus
Eccrine nevus
Benign melanocytic nevus
Adenoma sebaceum
Melanocytic nevus
Linear verrucous epidermal nevus
Pigmented spindle cell nevus