Mohs Surgery on the nose: Part 1 of 2, Taking Mohs Layers
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Mohs Surgery on the nose: Part 1 of 2, Taking Mohs Layers

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 […]
Skin cancer surgery: Double Advancement Flap on upper lip
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Skin cancer surgery: Double Advancement Flap on upper lip

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 […]
Excision of a pilomatricoma behind the knee
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Excision of a pilomatricoma behind the knee

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, […]
Removing a scar/ mole from the chin.
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Removing a scar/ mole from the chin.

This patient is the same person with the stubborn blackhead/keratin plug extractions on the nose, just recently posted. THIS is the reason that she came to see me in the first place. She has had a mole on her chin, that was treated with a laser many years ago. She doesn’t like the appearance of […]
Solar Comedones Extracted, aka Favre Racouchot
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Solar Comedones Extracted, aka Favre Racouchot

Solar comedones are open and closed comedones, aka blackhead and whiteheads, but these are not seen in teenagers, as a part of acne that is most common in this age group. Solar comedones are blackheads and whiteheads that occur later in life (usually seen in people in their 50s and higher), due to chronic cumulative […]