A man in his late 70s with a basal cell carcinoma of his left ear. He also has typical drooping of the earlobe that occurs as patients age. His original photo before the biopsy is shown. The next photo is in our office before surgery, showing the drooping of his earlobe. The next two photos were taken immediately after his Mohs surgery by the Mohs surgeon. The next photo is one week after surgery, showing the correction with a flap taking extra from the drooping earlobe and moving it up along the helical rim to correct the defect. The final photo is at 6 weeks and shows a beautiful contour of the ear as well as a correction of the large skin cancer defect.
Scars typically get thicker and redder for 6 weeks and then begin to fade. One benefit of being in the late 70s is that the scars fade, and the skin does not “heal as vigorously” as when we are younger. So, at 6 weeks, he already passed “the little girl test.” He does not have a deformity that little girls or boys might notice and comment on to their parents.
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