Usefulness of Ω-shaped Incision in Skin Tumor Excision

SUMMARY: We devised the Ω-shaped incision as a technique for skin tumor resection on the areas of skin with an arc-shaped fold. With this technique, the dog-ear that is formed during 6 wound closure can be resected within the range of the first skin incision. We report this technique after performin...

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Autores principales: Iida, Naoshige, Watanabe, Ayako
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2014
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Ideas and Innovations
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4174223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25289289
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000000042
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description SUMMARY: We devised the Ω-shaped incision as a technique for skin tumor resection on the areas of skin with an arc-shaped fold. With this technique, the dog-ear that is formed during 6 wound closure can be resected within the range of the first skin incision. We report this technique after performing it on the face or trunk of 18 patients and confirmed its usefulness.
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spelling pubmed-41742232014-10-06 Usefulness of Ω-shaped Incision in Skin Tumor Excision Iida, Naoshige Watanabe, Ayako Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open Ideas and Innovations SUMMARY: We devised the Ω-shaped incision as a technique for skin tumor resection on the areas of skin with an arc-shaped fold. With this technique, the dog-ear that is formed during 6 wound closure can be resected within the range of the first skin incision. We report this technique after performing it on the face or trunk of 18 patients and confirmed its usefulness. Wolters Kluwer Health 2014-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4174223/ /pubmed/25289289 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000000042 Text en Copyright © 2013 The Authors. Published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins on behalf of The American Society of Plastic Surgeons. PRS Global Open is a publication of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivitives 3.0 License, where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4174223/
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