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Eye screening - "naevus"?

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pinewood

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Type of diabetes
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Hi everyone,

I got the results of my eye screening and it says no action required - R0 M0 No Maculopathy.

However, for my left eye it says "Naevus" next to "Other Significant Lesions".

What does this mean and do I need to be concerned?
 
I think a naevus is a mole - the black or brown spots we all get. Does that make sense?

I had a look in Bilous and Donnelly and they don't mention mole/naevus at all, so it doesn't seem to be diabetes related.
 
Thanks! Yes, that is what my Googling has also suggested. I have had T1D for 10 years and been having screenings every year, so kind of weird it was only picked up now? Unless you can just get random moles from time-to-time. Hopefully it's nothing to worry about; I read a few scary websites that suggested there is a small chance they can be (or become) cancerous.
 
pinewood said:
Thanks! Yes, that is what my Googling has also suggested. I have had T1D for 10 years and been having screenings every year, so kind of weird it was only picked up now? Unless you can just get random moles from time-to-time. Hopefully it's nothing to worry about; I read a few scary websites that suggested there is a small chance they can be (or become) cancerous.
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My better half gets them frequently and they are equally frequently nipped off by the GP as a precaution, so I know what you mean.
 
I don’t have a naevus but I do have a chicken pox scar on the back of my eye from when I was about 8 yrs old - sometimes it’s mentioned on my retinal scan and sometimes it’s not, I’ve no idea why, maybe it all depends on who’s doing the reporting?
 
Hi. I can get into my medical reports through my GP's web site, but they are gobbledygook to me. So I copy and paste then into Microsoft Co-pilot and it translates them into something anyone can understand.
 
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