Expertise: Skin cancer surgery

This lovely gentleman is now a few months down the line from surgery. He had an unusual growth near the corner of his eye and the biopsy was unable to exclude cancer.

For safety, an excision was done with a margin and reconstruction performed with a skin graft taken from his neck.

Fortunately, the result was an unusually sited benign dermatofibroma, for which excision is curative. We had always discussed revising the graft with a flap, which would provide better contour and colour match from neighbouring skin, once the diagnosis was known.

But……a few months on and he is a happy patient with a definitive diagnosis, clear margins and aesthetics that he is satisfied with, the graft blending with the surrounding skin nicely and being appropriately contoured!

If you have skin lesions requiring close attention to detail in key areas of the head and neck then get in touch today!

(images published with patient consent)