Tips and Tricks in Procedural Dermatology: Efficient and Effective Approaches to Achieving Optimal Diagnostic and Therapeutic Results

This unique compendium of practical tips and Tricks in procedural dermatology highlights techniques designed to enhance common dermatologic tests and surgeries. The goal of these innovations is to maximise outcomes by providing simple quick efficient effective almost fail-safe Office surgeries that minimize expense and risk for the benefit of our patients. Careful descriptions and more than 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 pigment lesion laser fractionated CO2 laser and intense pulsed light (IPL) technologies.