A female patient in her 40s presented with a lesion of the left eyebrow that had been increasing in size for several months. A biopsy of the lesion was positive for basal cell carcinoma. She underwent Mohs excision of the lesion with a resulting defect. The defect was...
A male patient in his 60s is noted to have two separate skin cancers on the right side of his face. He has a larger squamous cell carcinoma on the cheek just below the eyelid and a basal cell carcinoma on the right side of the nasal tip. It was determined that in...
The patient is a male in his 50s who noticed a small bump growing over the tip of his nose for a few months. He presented to his dermatologist who took a biopsy of his lesion. The biopsy was positive for basal cell carcinoma (BCC). The patient presented to a Mohs...
The patient is a 74-year-old male who noticed a crusting lesion of his scalp. This grew rapidly. A biopsy of the lesion was consistent with squamous cell carcinoma. He underwent excision of the lesion with wide margins. The resulting defect was measured to be 3 cm by...
A patient in his sixties noticed a small bump along the left tip of his nose. When he saw his primary care physician he was referred to a dermatologist. A shave biopsy of the lesion was performed and found to be positive for basal cell carcinoma, the most common form...
A patient in his forties noted a growing bump on the side of his nose. The mass was biopsied and and found to be consistent with basal cell carcinoma. The patient underwent Mohs surgical excision of the mass and was left with a much larger defect than the originally...
