Tips & Tricks in Procedural Dermatology 1st/2020

Key Features :

Careful descriptions, clinical photographs and artistic renderings are utilized to demonstrate:

• Optimal methods for performing common office dermatologic tests: potassium hydroxide, scabies, and Tzanck preparations
• Proper choice of biopsy location
• Improvements in routine surgical procedures including shave and punch biopsies, curettage, and suturing techniques
• Techniques involving chemical destruction of appropriate lesions
• Novel enhancements of complex procedures in dermatologic surgery including Mohs surgery, elliptical excisions, nail procedures, flaps and grafts
• Cryotherapy and cryosurgery tips to improve outcomes
• New approaches to light-based therapy including photodynamic therapy, vascular lesion laser, pigmented lesion laser, fractionated CO2 laser, and intense pulsed light (IPL) technologies.