title: Defect involving both the cutaneous and the vermilion lip.
abstract: An 89-year-old white male presented for Mohs micrographic surgical extirpation of an invasive squamous cell carcinoma on his right lower lip. Extirpation required two stages of Mohs surgery and produced a 1.5 x 3.7 cm partial-thickness defect involving both the cutaneous and the vermilion lip, with little loss to the underlying orbicularis oris muscles (Figure 1). How would you repair the defect?
authors.affiliation: New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Galen H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.forename: Roy G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Geronemus
authors.forename: Leonard
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bernstein
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008048:Lip Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D015580:Mohs Surgery; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D013524:Surgical Flaps