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Skin cancer surgery

I had skin surgery today. I never saw the doctor. The nurses practitioner did the cutting and two nurses stitched it up. Is this normal? At my previous dermatologist I...

Open Wound Care

My Mohs surgeon gave me the option of stitches or open wound healing. I didn’t know what to decide. He said stitches are more likely to get infected and it...

Mohs Open Wound

I have been Dressing this Mohs open wound for 3 weeks now and I’m getting so tired of it. Has anyone had a Mohs open wound the size of a...

Mohs Surgery Wounds

Does anyone know if Mohs Surgery wounds should be closed with stitches or left to heal with an open wound? This concerns a wound the size of a quarter on...

Mohs Surgery After Excision

My dermatologist excised a skin lesion that turned out to be basal cell carcinoma. She referred me to a Mohs surgeon. I have been afraid to go and the wound...

Mohs Surgery Stitches

If stitches or secondary open wound to heal are the possible choices after Mohs Surgery would stitches be the better choice? My surgeon is giving me a choice....

Possible squamous cell on nose

Has anyone had surgery on their nose before? Just had a squamous cell carcinoma removed from my upper chest in June and had my dermatologist recheck a spot on my...

Mohs Surgery

Can you have Mohs surgery with kidney disease? What if you have symptoms of kidney disease but no nephrologist yet?...

Medical tattooing

Two years ago I had a 28mm piece of skin removed (infiltrative BCC) from the tip of my nose. At the time, no plastic surgeon was available and the dermatologist...

Stimlabs Revita allograft

I have had multiple basal and squamous cell cancers removed from many areas some with Mohs and some with simple excision. The ones on the front of my lower leg...

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