You’ve just found out you have Basal Cell or Squamous Cell skin cancer on your face. You want it gone yesterday. You want no recurrence. You want as small a scar as possible. Right? So, what do you do? Treatment options are confusing: Surgery? Radiation and/or chemotherapy? Surgery still has the best cure rates and the most predictable scar. But what…
All “Plastic Surgeons” Are Not Created Equal You’re finally ready to take the plunge and have cosmetic surgery. You want it done as safely as possible, with the best possible results. This series of blogs addresses safety in Cosmetic surgery. Today we’ll discuss Board Certification. Would you go to a dentist for a facelift? Or a family practitioner for Botox™? …
Painless Tummy Tuck? I have several core beliefs about cosmetic surgery. First, and most important, it must be safe. To protect patients from the risks inherent in hospital stays, I also think all cosmetic surgery should be performed on an outpatient basis. A safe outpatient abdominoplasty, or tummy tuck, must be as painless as possible. We must avoid narcotic…
Surgery. 1994 Mar;115(3):402-5. Lobular carcinoma of the male breast. Michaels BM, Nunn CR, Roses DF. Author information Department of Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, New York. Abstract BACKGROUND: A case of lobular carcinoma in a male breast is described. Lobular carcinoma is a very uncommon histopathologic form of male breast cancer because of the absence of lobules in…
