Epidermal nevus: surgical treatment by partial-thickness skin excision.
A child with epidermal nevus, systematized, is reported in which diffuse areas of pruritic and bleeding tissue were treated by partial-thickness skin excision, a technique reported to have been successful in other forms of benign dyskeratosis, such as psoriasis. At age 5 years, a test region of the anterior thigh was treated and remained disease free with an acceptable scar. At age 8 years, this technique was applied to the back, buttock, calf, and thigh. While the areas remain disease free, they have, unfortunately, healed with hypertrophic and keloid scars.
Dellon
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Division of Plastic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Luethke
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Wong
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Barnett
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D002648:Child; D004564:Electrocoagulation; D006801:Humans; D007627:Keloid / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000601:surgery*; D009508:Nevus, Pigmented / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D011537:Pruritus / Q000601:surgery; D012086:Reoperation; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology