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Digital pathology is a subfield of pathology. It focuses on data management using information from digital specimen slides. Digital pathology uses virtual microscopy thanks to computer-based technology.

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A Detailed Guide on Mohs Micrographic Surgery

Mohs micrographic surgery is the best way to treat skin cancer. The main objective of using this procedure is to remove cancer while saving healthy tissues affixing around it. In this process, the layer of the skin is removed one by one (one at a time) and examine under Mohs laboratory until all the cancerous tissues removed successfully. With the help of this treatment, the patient will need not to go for any surgery in future.

For which situation Mohs micrographic surgery is best?

- When your skin cancer is likely to come back or has already returned even after the treatment. - It is located at that body part where a big count of healthy tissues is imperative. - If the cancerous tissues are big or they are growing rapidly. - If it has uneven edges.

How Mohs micrographic surgery is performed?

Mohs surgery is done in an operating room with a nearby professional laboratory with the help of experienced Mohs lab technicians. They help surgeons to examine whether the cancerous tissue is removed or not. The surgery takes around 3-4 hours, the patient can go home within a few hours. But it is good if you will stay at the lab for a whole day if in case you need any doctor’s help.

After surgery prevention

Once the surgery has done successfully and the surgeons have removed all the cancerous tissues, he/she will tell you some guidelines that will help to let the wound heal. Depending upon the situation, the patient will go with one of these solutions:

● Stitch the wound closed. ● Let the incision heal by itself. ● Cover the wound with a flap of your skin taking from any of your body parts. ● Cover the wound with a skin graft taken from any part of your body. ● Cover the wound temporarily and set reconstructive surgery for later.

As your surgeons will be able to see the results right after the surgery, so you can go home with all your skin cancer removed successfully. But, you need to visit your doctor periodically for checkups.

You may feel discomfort, redness, bleeding, or swelling after the procedure, but fret not, these issues will be sorted. Your doctor will give you some instructions on how to remove the wound, listen to it very carefully and do the same.

Imperative follow-up exams

Though Mohs micrographic surgery contains a high chance to cure skin cancer, then only you will always have a small risk of cancer recurrence.

People who have faced skin cancer before; there is a high risk of developing skin cancer in their body once again, as compared to those people who have never had skin cancer. There is a huge chance of 50 out of 100 people who have been diagnosed by skin cancer will again develop skin cancer tissue after 5 years of treatment.

So, people who undergo follow-up visits with their dermatologists likely have less chance to develop skin cancer tissue in their body. So, kindly visit your dermatologist regularly to keep yourself protective and healthy.

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