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For medical education- NSFE. I. Flat warts, aka verruca plana, are caused by a virus. They can be spread on the skin in a linear direction due to “Koebnerization”. In other words, they can be spread by shaving the legs or scratching the skin-this minor trauma to the skin can drag the virus from one […]

This patient has 3 blackheads that I extracted, with two of them under his right eye. I put a little numbing in the area, and this can often create a visible bruise in the area that is difficult to avoid, because this is the thinnest skin on the body, so it is pretty translucent and […]

This patient of mine came in for a total body skin check. During this examination, I noticed numerous blackheads on the back. Blackheads are open comedones, follicles/pores that have dilated and are filled with keratin/ skin cells. They can be extracted using a comedone extractor as you see here, but often when they are larger […]

For medical education- NSFE. This young beautiful woman has a probable lipoma on her forehead, which creates a noticeable bump. She is getting married soon, and would like to have it removed before her wedding. A lipoma is a benign collection of clonal fat cells (adipose cells), that can occur anywhere on the body, where […]

Initially, I thought these bumps lateral to this patient’s left eye were solar comedones due to their location and his history of chronic sun exposure. However, the bumps extracted were pearly, slightly firm tiny cysts, so I believe they were milia. Milia are very superficial cysts which commonly occur on the face, in particular around […]

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. 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 […]

For medical education- NSFE. Excision of a sizable lipoma in the right armpit. Some of the audio had been omitted to preserve patient privacy. Lipomas are benign growths of clonal fat cells and are fun to remove because they usually come out clean and in one piece. Enjoy! source

This is a cyst excision on the upper back, on a cyst that has been previously inflamed and had a small scar visible on an edge of the initial bump. This patient is darker complected, which is by the macerated keratin within the sac of this cyst is dark grey in color. The contents of […]