Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Mohs surgery

 

They take out as little tissue as possible, while getting all the skin cancer.  They start with a chunk about the size of a pencil eraser and go do lab work on it.  That takes about two hours.  If there is any cancer in the edges of the chunk, they go back and chase it across your face with subsequent excisions until the edges are clean.  They got all of Judy’s on the first try.  It took a couple tries to get all of mine.

 

We’re through with that part.  All our edges are clean.

 

Tomorrow, skin grafts to plug the holes they made.

 

 

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