How To Remove Skin Lesions Yourself

Removing benign peel lesions

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This page will requite you information about removing benign skin lesions. If yous take any questions, you lot should ask your GP or other relevant health professional.

What are skin lesions?

Peel lesions are lumps plant on or just below your peel. Examples of skin lesions are sebaceous cysts (as well chosen epidermal inclusion cysts or epidermoid cysts), lipomas, skin tags and moles.

What are the benefits of surgery?

Most skin lesions tin can be safely left alone. You may want the skin lesion removed for cosmetic reasons or to be reassured that it is not a cancer.

Are in that location any alternatives to surgery?

Surgery is the merely reliable way to remove pare lesions merely you may simply exit them alone.

What does the operation involve?

The operation is unremarkably performed under a local anaesthetic.

The operation usually takes 15 to 25 minutes.

When removing a sebaceous cyst, your surgeon volition attempt to remove it whole as this makes sure that none of the cyst wall is left behind and prevents it from coming back. Your surgeon volition brand an elliptical (oval) cut over the cyst and and then cut out the cyst.

To remove a lipoma, your surgeon will brand a directly cutting on your peel direct over it. The lipoma is freed upwards from the tissues around it and removed.

A peel tag tin can just be numbed with local anaesthetic and then removed.

When removing a mole, your surgeon will cutting all the way around it using an elliptical cut.

What complications can happen?

General complications of whatever operation

pain
haemorrhage
infection of the surgical site (wound)
allergic reaction to the equipment, materials or medication
cruddy scarring of your peel
wound breakup

Specific complications of this operation

a lipoma or a sebaceous cyst can come dorsum
impairment to fretfulness that supply your skin
you may need a larger operation

How before long will I recover?

After a brusk while you volition be able to become dwelling house.

You lot should exist able to render to work the next day unless your work will identify a strain on the stitches. It is unusual for these procedures to restrict any daily activities yous comport out.

Summary

Skin lesions are mutual and can be treated past surgery.

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Last reviewed: September 2021