Plastic Surgery Key

Treatment: Solitary fibrofolliculomas can be removed completely with the shave removal technique. This gives excellent cosmetic results, and the tumors are unlikely to recur. Multiple tumors are more difficult to…

Treatment: No therapy is required for small, asymptomatic ganglion cysts. If a patient desires removal or if the cyst is causing symptoms, especially weakness and numbness, therapy is needed. Needle…

Treatment: No treatment is necessary, although a small shave biopsy is often all that is required to remove the fibrous papule with an excellent cosmetic result. Most fibrous papules are…

Treatment: Small, isolated epidermal nevi can be removed with shave removal technique. They have a high rate of recurrence with this technique, but recurrence may take many years. The advantages…

Inflamed cysts should be treated initially with an incision and drainage technique. The region is anesthetized and then incised with a no. 11 blade. The resulting cheesy-white macerated keratin debris…

Treatment: No therapy is needed other than to recommend sun protection, sunscreen use, and routine skin examinations in the future. For cosmetic reasons, lentigines can be removed in a myriad…

One of the more important and unique variants of lentigines are the psoralen + ultraviolet A light (PUVA) lentigines. PUVA lentigines are iatrogenic in nature and occur after medical therapy…

Pathogenesis: Eccrine syringomas are believed to be an overgrowth of the eccrine sweat ductal apparatus. Researchers have proposed that this proliferation is caused by an inflammatory response to an as…

Treatment: Surgical excision is curative. Surgical removal with carbon dioxide laser ablation has also been found to be highly successful. Because of the number and size of the tumors in…

The eccrine porocarcinoma is very uncommon; histologically, it is a tumor that is poorly circumscribed and often found in conjunction with an eccrine poroma. Cells with multiple large nuclei and…