[Pigmented nevus and preventive surgery of skin melanoma]

Modern clinical views on the role of nevus in occurrence of melanoma were enlighted. The main positions of diagnostic-therapeutic algorithm of preventive surgery of the skin melanoma were substantiated. Methods of surgical interventions, variants of morphological conclusions and tactic of treatment after the operation performance were suggested. Particular role of oncologist and pathomorphologist in establishing of diagnosis and choice of correct tactic of treatment was underlined.