I apologize in advance. This video taught me something: NOT to film cyst excisions/removals with my GoPro! I apologize for the poor quality, but you live and learn. I promise I won’t do it again 😉 This gentleman was undergoing Mohs Micrographic Skin Cancer Surgery on his right side of his forehead and I couldn’t […]
This patient has a pilomatricoma, aka a calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe, which is commonly a solitary but mobile growth under the skin which is most often confused to be an epidermoid cyst. These are benign growths, not painful or uncomfortable. I was suspicious it was a pilomatricoma when I removed it because of it’s firmness, […]
Many of you ask me to keep you updated on my patients, asking how they look after their surgeries. This gentleman had 3 cysts removed via punch excision, using a 4mm punch biopsy tool, about one month ago. This was a procedure done under local anesthesia, the cyst sac and internal contents were removed completely, […]