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Have Small Dark Spot On Bridge Of Nose And Goes Away When Pressed. How To Remove It?

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Posted on Fri, 23 Aug 2013
Question: Hello I have a very small dark spot on the bridge of my nose that will go away for few seconds if I press on it. What is it and can I have it removed?? It looks like a black head, but is fluid in nature.
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Answered by Dr. Johny Chacko (8 hours later)
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From your description it seems like cherry angioma. It is a proliferation of blood vessel (venule). It is usually benign and does not cause any problem. It can be removed by electrosurgery or laser or cryo surgery.

You have a feature to upload the images by yourself at the right side of the query page, please utilize that so that I can confirm the diagnosis. You can also send the image as attachment to YYYY@YYYY , with the subject as 'Attn: Dr. Johny Chacko'.
Hope this helped
Take care
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Have Small Dark Spot On Bridge Of Nose And Goes Away When Pressed. How To Remove It?

Hello,
Welcome to healthcare magic
From your description it seems like cherry angioma. It is a proliferation of blood vessel (venule). It is usually benign and does not cause any problem. It can be removed by electrosurgery or laser or cryo surgery.

You have a feature to upload the images by yourself at the right side of the query page, please utilize that so that I can confirm the diagnosis. You can also send the image as attachment to YYYY@YYYY , with the subject as 'Attn: Dr. Johny Chacko'.
Hope this helped
Take care