Indications for Skin Surgery
In this unit, you will learn how to biopsy or remove a suspicious skin lesion using techniques for the best possible outcome as shown in the picture sequence below.
First, let us review the indications for skin lesion biopsy or excision:
Desire to identify the skin lesion to determine appropriate care, i.e., unknown dermatitis or possible malignant lesion.
Removal of suspected pre-malignant skin lesion, i.e., atypical nevus.
Removal with appropriate margin a known malignant skin lesion, i.e., basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma.
Removal of irritated benign skin lesion, i.e., irritated seborrheic keratosis.
In this image: This is an example of lesions on the neck.
