Skin tags are common benign (non-cancerous) skin polyps. This image displays small, benign skin polyps called acrochordons (skin tags). This early adolescent has a single harmless skin tag (acrochordon) on the armpit. This image displays a lesion with a thin "stalk" typical of skin tags (acrochordons). This image displays a typical acrochordon (skin tag) on the neck.
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Skin tags are common benign (non-cancerous) skin polyps.
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Treatments Your Physician May Prescribe
Skin tags may be treated by:
  • Snipping with scissors
  • Freezing with liquid nitrogen (cryosurgery)
  • Destroying the skin tag(s) with an instrument providing a small of amount of electrical current (electrodesiccation)
Last Modified: 27 Dec 2007

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