Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Skin tag removal

 

Acrochordon (Skin tag) removal

METHODS

  • Cryotherapy

  • Surgical removal (Usually done)

  • Electrosurgery


SURGICAL EXCISION

 

REQUIREMENTS: 

Written informed consent, 2 ml syringe filled with local anesthetic and attached to a needle, scissors, toothed forceps, sterile gauze pieces, ethanol


PROCEDURE:

  • Area over and surrounding the lesion is cleaned with ethanol

  • Local anaesthesia with 2% Lignocaine with or without adrenaline is given

  • Acrochordon is held with the forceps and the base is cut using a snip scissor or blade

  • After achieving hemostasis (by applying pressure or aluminium chloride), antibiotic ointment applied



     
    Written by our guest author Kritika Bhatia
    Illustration by Devi Bavishi
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