Skin Cancer #45

A man in his early 80s was shown just after Mohs surgery for the removal of a squamous cell skin cancer in his right ear.  He is shown again, 6 weeks after a reduction in otoplasty.  His ear is re-shaped and made smaller- repairing the defect and restoring a normal contour of the ear.  Even though the ear is now smaller, it is not deformed because it has a normal contour and we don’t look at both ears at the same time.  He passes the “little girl test”.  The little boys and girls don’t poke their mother and ask “what happened to that man” ie, he doesn’t look deformed.