Dermatosurgery

La skin injury surgery, or dermatosurgery, includes all surgical procedures that treat cutaneous and subcutaneous lesions of all types.

Here are a few cases where dermatosurgery may be indicated:

→ Mole or “nævus”

→ Lipomas (fatty benign tumor)

→ Angiomas (vascular benign tumor)

→ Sebaceous cysts

→ Malignant melanomas

→ Basal cell or squamous cell epitheliomas

A dermatosurgical procedure consists in remove a cutaneous or subcutaneous lesion. In the case of a malignant lesion (malignant melanoma for example), a safety margin is achieved. That is to say that the surgeon cutting wide, it removes the lesion as well as a portion of surrounding healthy skin to avoid leaving tumor residues that could cause recurrence.

After removing the lesion, the surgeon makes a simple suture to close the wound. Sometimes a Lambeau cutaneous must be grafted to cover the wound left after extensive excision (bulky lesion).

The removed lesion will be systematically sent to the laboratory for review histological so as never to miss out on a malignant pathology.