Three methods of cosmetic surgery—local skin flap, full thickness skin graft, and secondary intention—were evaluated for their scarring risk following Mohs microscopic surgery on the distal third of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Free flap (38.7%), split thickness graft (30%) and local flap (12.5%) repairs caused most complications.

The timing of Mohs micrographic reconstructive surgery had no impact on infection risk or flap failure, according to recent findings. The researchers suggested that while a delay to reconstructive ...

Mohs surgery is a way for surgeons to remove cancerous layers of skin from your face, ears, hands, and feet. Mohs surgery is a state-of-the-art procedure that carefully removes cancerous skin cells ...

Feb. 21, 2003 — Outpatient Mohs surgery for skin cancer is safe, with a very low complication rate, according to the results of the first large prospective study of this procedure, reported in the ...

—Boston-based investigators recently did a head-to-head comparison of standard excision or total margin-controlled excision (most commonly Mohs surgery) for invasive keratinocyte carcinomas of the ...

Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the U.S. In fact, one in five Americans are projected to develop skin cancer over their lifetime, according to the American Academy of Dermatology.

First lady Jill Biden traveled to a military hospital Wednesday to remove a lesion found above her right eye during a routine skin examination. Doctors recommended she undergo Mohs surgery to remove ...

Mohs micrographic surgery, commonly known as Mohs surgery, is performed to treat skin cancer. The procedure's name comes from Frederic E. Mohs, the doctor who invented the technique in the 1930s.