What Are the Brown Spots on Skin That You Can Scrape Off?
Brown, protruding growth spots on the skin can be either moles or skin tags. You can scrape off skin tags, though that can cause pain and bleeding. Moles are larger, and you can't scrape them off.
Appearance
Cultaneous skin tags usually are small protruding growths that are either skin-toned or brown.
Cause
Skin rubbing against itself often causes skin tags. Therefore, they usually are found on the neck, chest, back, armpits, under the breasts or in the groin area.
Significance
Cultaneous skin tags pose no real medical threat, but they can cause psychological trauma for people who are self-conscious about the appearance of the tags.
Treatment
For people who want to remove their cultaneous skin tags, they can have them cut off with a scalpel or through cryotherapy (freezing) or electrosurgery (burning them off).
Misconceptions
Many people confuse skin tags for moles, but they are actually completely different. Moles develop when melanocyte cells grow in a cluster instead of evenly being distributed across the skin.
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