For medical education- NSFE. This is my lovely patient who had the big blackheads on her back that we extracted a month ago. As you can see she is such a sweet woman, who loves to tell stories. And she has allowed us to film her amazing blackheads and cysts! She returns today so that […]
Here’s my patients two months after her surgery! She had a bump on her upper back that she hated. It was an epidermoid cyst, which is a benign growth that can grow to a large size, just under the skin surface. Cysts like this don’t need to be removed, but they can get inflamed and […]
For medical education- NSFE. A snip removal of a mole using very sharp, serrated scissors, then using a punch biopsy tool to remove an epidermoid cyst on my patient’s back. enjoy! source
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. She loves getting her nails done, her beautiful rings and fancy watches and bangles, but has had to deal with this large lipoma on her left wrist for many years. She was told that she would have to go under general anesthesia to remove the area and since she lives alone, […]