It is, unfortunately, expensive and requires proper training and precision in order to assure that it is being done properly. MOHS Surgery was developed by a dermatologist, Dr. Frederick E. Mohs, at the University of Wisconsin in the early half of this century. Mohs Surgery was recently used to treat skin cancers on both President Reagan and President Bush. Mohs Surgery is a form of horizontal section analysis and involves the removal of a bowl-shaped tissue specimen. MOHS is different from excisional surgery or excisional biopsy removal, which usually implies vertical sectioning.
Vertical sections have an inherent failure rate.
See Excisional biopsy. See Dysplastic Nevus. See Atypical Mole. A mole on the skin does not necessarily mean that the growth will burrow like the animal. Nevi - More than one nevus, plural of nevus.