Many of you may remember this gentleman. He is a SeaBee and he has had blackheads extracted in the past. He had a biopsy proven Melanoma in Situ on the posterior neck, which you can see that I biopsied in his first visit. Here, he returns, so I can remove this skin cancer in it’s […]
Mohs Micrographic Skin Cancer Surgery is a specialized technique, designed to remove skin cancers, most commonly basal cell carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas, removing as little normal tissue as possible with the lowest rate of reoccurrence. We most commonly use this technique on the face, since we want to remove as little normal tissue as […]
This lovely patient of mine had a biopsy proven keratoacanthoma, which is a form of a type of skin cancer called a squamous cell carcinoma. These are usually quick growing skin cancer that most commonly occurs on sun exposed skin. They grow up quickly and often have a central scab – they look a lot […]
This patient had Mohs Micrographic Skin Cancer Surgery to remove a basal cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer on his upper lip. Although at this size, this type of skin cancer is not life threatening, however, it is locally destructive, so needs to be removed, and Mohs Surgery is the ideal technique that removes […]
These are skin conditions we see on nearly a daily basis, and here you can see how a dermatologist biopsies two areas. The first is an angioma, which is a benign vascular abnomality. There are also called cherry angiomas, and 100% of us get at least one by 18 years old. They don’t need to […]
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 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 […]
For medical education- NSFE. Don’t be upset I didn’t attack all the blackheads! She was here to see me today because we did a pretty big skin cancer removal and reconstruction on her face in the past, and we are just doing some minor improvements on the resultant scar. I ran out of memory on […]
For medical education- NSFE. Excision of a type of skin cancer called a basal cell carcinoma, followed by repair using buried vertical mattress suture and running subcuticular suture source