Approach to moderately dysplastic nevi with positive histologic margins

To the Editor: We are grateful to Dr Kantor for his thoughtful and detailed review of our paper.1 Our goal was to contribute to the literature regarding moderate dysplastic nevi (DN), and we showed that 147 such nevi with positive histologic margins showed a recurrence rate of only 4%.2 We agree that larger studies are needed and are grateful that they are underway. Dr Kantor is correct in pointing out that the majority of these moderate DNs were biopsied with the intent to excise, and we agree that our data are not applicable to partially sampled lesions because partial sampling was not the goal of our study.