DERMATOLOGIC PROCEDURES
At North Hills Family Medicine, we can diagnose suspicious or changing lesions on the extremities, trunk or face.
Most of the time, a punch or shave biopsy can be performed with local anesthetic right here in our office, giving results in a few days that determine the next step in treatment.
We also offer:
- Punch Biopsies: involves taking a small disc of full thickness skin using a special punch biopsy instrument. This will require stitches.
- Shave Biopsies: involves removal of protruding, superficial skin lesions using a razor blade.
- Cryosurgery (freezing) of actinic keratosis (pre-cancerous lesions)
- Cyst Removal
- Incisions and Drainage of Abscesses and Boils
- Nail Fungus Diagnosis and Treatment (Onychomycosis)
- Skin-tag Removal
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Wart Removal (multiple options available)