For medical education- NSFE. This is an elderly patient who has a keratoacanthoma on her back, which is a type of squamous cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer. These typically grow rather quickly, kind of coming up like a “volcano” with a center core like a scab or in this case, a cutaneous horn […]
Sorry, I accidentally deleted this video from my youtube yesterday. This patient has a seborrheic keratosis, aka a “wisdom spot” on her left cheek. These are benign growths, but people don’t like the appearance of them so they often request removal. The most common method of removal is probably treatment with liquid nitrogen spray. However, […]
For medical education- NSFE. This patient came to see me because she has “red dots on her hands” that she doesn’t like the appearance of. She is getting married soon, and wants her hands to look beautiful, of course! She has two nevus araneus, also called spider angiomas. These are just small broken capillaries, maybe […]
This is a great example of why I love my job… I’m lucky to have these wonderful patients that I get to develop a relationship with, who make you laugh, who you look forward to seeing. And the bonus is, I get to extract their blackheads. Hopefully, someday he will appreciate that I did so… […]
This patient has 3 blackheads that I extracted, with two of them under his right eye. I put a little numbing in the area, and this can often create a visible bruise in the area that is difficult to avoid, because this is the thinnest skin on the body, so it is pretty translucent and […]
For medical education- NSFE. This young beautiful woman has a probable lipoma on her forehead, which creates a noticeable bump. She is getting married soon, and would like to have it removed before her wedding. A lipoma is a benign collection of clonal fat cells (adipose cells), that can occur anywhere on the body, where […]
This patient saw me this week, and she told me about this bump on her scalp during the last few minutes of her appointment. I think she was scared to have it removed, but as you can see it is pretty simple to remove a bump like this, and it should be a pretty painless […]