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… […]
For medical education- NSFE. Milia are superficial small cysts just below the skin surface. They are common and benign, but cannot be extracted by just squeezing like many blackheads/comedones can. A nick has to be made in the skin in order to squeeze them out with a comedone extractor. This can hurt, but this woman […]
Many of you may really love watching this kind of cyst excision, but actually I don’t really enjoy this particular kind. I much prefer the clean cyst excisions, when I remove the cyst intact and can squeeze out the nice, white, clean contents out later if I wish. The reason I don’t really like these […]
This patient was seen by one of our Physician Assistants today, Erin, and she noticed he had an epidermoid cyst that he didn’t like on his left anterior shoulder. I had a few minutes between patients, so I was able to remove it, and video tape it for you all to see. An epidermoid cyst […]
For medical education- NSFE. Some lucky days I find patients with comedones that are extremely impressive (I love those days!). Other days, I just get mediocre comedones. Today was one of those latter days. Do you want me to post everything I record, like today? I feel like you do. It’s like gambling or fishing, […]
For medical education- NSFE. Treating Alopecia areata. Focal hair loss that is common and often treatable. I am injecting a corticosteroid into the area to help suppress her immune system there so that her hair can regrow. source
For medical education- NSFE. Those of you who like blackhead extractions may also like this procedure, because there is a feeling of completeness and accomplishment after doing sclerotherapy (sclero for short), which is the treatment of spider veins. Sclero is the gold standard, the best treatment for spider veins esp on the lower extremities. Blood […]
For medical education- NSFE. This patient has a pretty large keloid on his left earlobe, triggered by an ear piercing. Keloids occur most often on the earlobes, the chest, back, and upper arms. It is when scar tissue from an episode of “trauma” gets hyperexcited and grows beyond the bounds of the original wound. Usually […]
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 […]