Curettage, electrosurgery and skin cancer

Sheridan, Adam T; Dawber, R.P.R.

doi:10.1046/j.1440-0960.2000.00383.x

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“…In the treatment of NMSC, electrodessication is used by superfi cially destroying affected tissue [ 18 ]. This technique involves removing cancerous tissue with the curette followed by lightly applying an electrical current to the base to burn any remaining tumor cells.…”

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Basal Cell Carcinoma

Perera¹,

Sinclair²

2016

Dermatological Cryosurgery and Cryotherapy

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Nonmelanoma (NMSC) are the most common skin cancer in the Western world. Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) account for roughly 80 % of NMSC. BCC are slow growing and rarely aggressive. A variety of treatments exist for the treatment of BCC with conventional surgical excision being the most commonly use method. Other options include Mohs' surgery, curettage and electrodessication, laser therapies, radiotherapy and a number of topical treatments. Cryosurgery is a potentially under-utilised treatment option that offers the benefi t of being less invasive. Cryotherapy is not recommended for lesions that are: morphoeic; have poorly defi ned margins; recurrent; on the eyelid, nasolabial fold or preauricular region; fi xed to deeper structures; have a depth greater than 3 mm. Lesions greater than 2 cm in diameter can be treated segmentally. BCCs that are thick can be debulked with a curette prior to treatment. Common complications include pain, edema and blistering. When BCC lesions are selected carefully treatment outcomes are highly successful.

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Basal Cell Carcinoma

Perera¹,

Sinclair²

2016

Dermatological Cryosurgery and Cryotherapy

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“…Curettage is used to scrape of larger, hypertrophic lesions with a curette. The drawbacks of this technique are the necessity for a local anesthesia and the scars [7].…”

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Light-Emitting Woven Fabric for Treatment with Photodynamic Therapy and Monitoring of Actinic Keratosis

Oguz¹,

Končar²,

Cochrane³

et al. 2017

Photomedicine - Advances in Clinical Practice

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A successful photodynamic therapy (PDT) requires a specific photosensitizer, oxygen and light of a specific wavelength and power. Today photodynamic therapy (PDT) is administered to patients with light-emitting diode (LED) panels. These panels deliver a non-uniform light distribution on the human body parts, as the complex human anatomy is not a flat surface (head vertex, hand, shoulder, etc.). For an efficient photodynamic therapy (PDT), a light-emitting fabric (LEF) was woven from plastic optical fibers (POF) aiming at the treatment of dermatologic diseases such as actinic keratosis (AK). Plastic optical fibers (POF) (Toray, PGR-FB250) have been woven in textile in order to create macro-bendings, and thus emit out the injected light directly to the skin. The light intensity and light-emitting homogeneity of the LEF were improved thanks to Doehlert Experimental Design. During the treatment with PDT, the photosensitizers were activated in the cancerous cells. These cells may be visualized, as they show a characteristic fluorescence under UV light, which is called fluorescence diagnosis (FD). Therefore, it is proposed to modify the developed LEF for PDT to measure the fluorescence amount. For this aim, a part of POFs was cut out to observe the quantity of light that could be collected while the LEF was connected to a light source. The first prototypes showed the possibility of the illumination with the same LEF without losing the efficiency but also imaging the collected light.

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“…1 Modern day curettes are slight modifications of the classic curettes, and consist of circular or oval, cup-shaped or fenestrated head with a semi-sharp cutting edge. Disposable curettes are available as a complete curette unit, and also as a disposable tip that can be attached to the standard BardeParker scalpel handle.…”

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“…The virus generally affects children, sexually active adults, and immunocompromised patients. 1 The diagnosis is generally made on clinical grounds, but mollusca may mimic benign nevi, fibrous papules, adnexal tumors, basal cell carcinoma, keratoacanthoma, juvenile xanthogranuloma, neurilemmoma, lichen planus, milia, flat warts, granuloma annulare, pyogenic granuloma, bacillary angiomatosis, cryptococcus, histoplasmosis, and Penicillium marneffei infection. [1][2][3][4] Traditionally, confirmation of diagnosis requires a crush prep followed by Wright, Giemsa, Gram, or Papanicolaou stain to visualize the molluscum core material for the characteristic Hendersone …”

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