Excision Overview and Procedure [Dermatology]

This video contains an overview and procedure of an excision surgery.

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Partial Video Transcript:

"So today's videos gonna be talking about the dermatology procedure of a simple excision.

Now, fortunately these procedures are done in the vast majority of times, while you're awake, so it's just local anesthesia. It's just a little bit more than the biopsy was, so that little poke and a burn you're gonna feel a little bit more of that, but you're awake for the whole time.

So what's gonna happen is we're gonna bring you back into the room, we're gonna find the area, draw on it, show you a picture of what we're doing. It'll be locally numbed and cleaned, and then we're just, gonna simply cut around the lesion.

All right so we've numbed around this area, and you can see the area of the biopsy here. For this lesion we're giving three millimeter margins. And so for three millimeter margins go all the way around, we're doing something, like this. But you can't close a circle, you have to elongate it and so it's usually three to five times the width of the lesion is how, long it will be. So I'm going to be cutting into the area. Patient, all the patient needs to do is let us know, if they're feeling any..."


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Dr. Reagan Anderson is Board Certified Dermatologist and a Mohs Micrographic Surgeon.

Education & Credentials:

• Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine
• American Osteopathic Association Approved Internship, Family Practice
Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton
• Undersea/Diving Medical Officer, UMO/DMO
Naval Undersea Medical Institute
• Master of Christian Studies
Regent College
• Master of Public Health
School of Health Management, ATSU
• Dermatology Residency
Michigan State University/Oakwood Southshore Medical Center
• Board Certified Dermatologist
American Osteopathic Board of Dermatology
• Fellow Member of the American Society of Mohs Surgeons
• Certificate of Added Qualification for Mohs Surgery
American Osteopathic Board of Dermatology
• Assistant Professor of Dermatology
Rocky Vista University
• USMC First Reconnaissance Battalion Surgeon (former)