Cases in Skin Cancer

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Tip of nose

February 25, 2016
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Surgical Hole After Skin Cancer Removal: This lady had a tricky skin cancer removed from the tip of her nose with Mohs surgery. The resulting defect is deep and down to the cartilage of the nose. Plastic Surgical Reconstruction by Dr Hussain: To repair the wound, I chose to do a Rieger flap as I…  read more

Central forehead

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Surgical Hole After Skin Cancer Removal: After removing a skin cancer with deep roots, this patient had a large defect on the central upper forehead. Plastic Surgical Reconstruction by Dr Hussain: Although a skin graft could have been undertaken here, I didn’t feel this would provide the best long term cosmetic result for this patient….  read more

Eye

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Surgical Hole After Skin Cancer Removal: After removing a skin cancer with Mohs surgery, this lady had a very challenging defect for me to reconstruct on the left upper eyelid. Plastic Surgical Reconstruction by Dr Hussain: In this case, I took the skin from the right upper eyelid in the same way I would perform…  read more

Ear

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Surgical Hole After Skin Cancer Removal: This patient was referred to me to deal with a skin cancer on the upper ear. A large wound with exposed cartilage resulted after Mohs surgery – remember this is the smallest hole that was needed to remove the cancer. Plastic Surgical Reconstruction by Dr Hussain: Ear reconstruction is…  read more

Chin

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Surgical Hole After Skin Cancer Removal: A large hole on the central chin after this lady had a skin cancer removed with Mohs surgery. Plastic Surgical Reconstruction by Dr Hussain: In order to conceal the scar lines as best as possible, I designed a repair known as an O to T (double rotation) flap. I…  read more

Lower eyelid / upper cheek

February 24, 2016
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Surgical Hole After Skin Cancer Removal: After removing this patient’s skin cancer with Mohs surgery, the patient was left with a deep hole as shown. Plastic Surgical Reconstruction by Dr Hussain: When I was deciding how best to repair this wound I was keen to try to hide any scars within natural facial expression lines…  read more

Right upper cheek

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Surgical Hole After Skin Cancer Removal: After removing this lady’s skin cancer, a large deep wound resulted. Remember, as this was treated with Mohs surgery, this was the smallest hole necessary to ensure all the cancer roots had been removed. Plastic Surgical Reconstruction by Dr Hussain: I didn’t feel that a skin graft would provide…  read more

Right nasal alar (wing of nose)

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Surgical Hole After Skin Cancer Removal: When I removed the skin cancer from this lady’s nose, the cancer roots had gone through the nose skin resulting in what we call a ‘full thickness nasal defect’. As you can see, not only has the skin and underlying tissue been removed but also the cartilage and lining…  read more

Left alar (wing of nose)

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Surgical Hole After Skin Cancer Removal: After Mohs surgery to remove a tricky skin cancer from the side of this patient’s nose, a full thickness (through the nose) wound resulted. Plastic Surgical Reconstruction by Dr Hussain: In this patient’s case, I opted to reconstruct the wound using skin from the forehead, which actually has a…  read more

Right cheek (along nasojugal fold)

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Surgical Hole After Skin Cancer Removal: This patient underwent Mohs surgery for a skin cancer on their right cheek approaching the side of the nose. Plastic Surgical Reconstruction by Dr Hussain: To minimise the amount of scarring on the cheek itself, I performed a ‘bridge rotation flap’ which borrows skin from the nose and moves…  read more


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