Skin Cancer
LASER+ Treatment for Basal Cell Carcinoma
Certain forms of skin cancer, like basal cell carcinoma, and pre-cancerous conditions like Actinic Keratosis, Bowens Disease and others, can be treated safely, effectively in a scarless fashion using laser treatments. Such treatments are in use by experts when surgery is not an options or will not be tolerated by a patient for various reasons. In selected patients it is safe, well tolerated, equally successful as surgery, with the additional benefit of avoiding donor areas, and scar formation accompanying traditional excision and reconstruction surgery
Certain forms of skin cancer, require surgical management, as they are either very agressive or cannot be amenable to treatment by other means. When this happens, surgery may be the way forward. As board certified plastic surgeons we will also take care of the reconstructive aspects, especially around noble areas such as the nose lipes eyelids and ears. And of course, sort out your scars down the line
Wide local excision of deeply extending skin cancer with modified perialar crescent flap and laser scar treatment
In certain cases, the resulting defect after a skin cancer excision is not amenable to simple closure. In these cases one or our core competences is to figure out the best option in your personal circumstances to achieve closure of the skin.
Sometimes this is through the use of a skin graft- a "spare part of skin" taken from one part of the body where there is plenty, to an area where there is little. At other times, the best cosmetic long term result is by geometrically shifting skin adjacent to the defect. At other times, it means bringing in skin and other tissue from distant parts with their own blood supply into the defect.