Plastic surgery; its principles and practice . ation incision was raade, and the raw surfaces were grafted. Some of these moles, at birth, are depressed slightly below the levelof the surrounding skin, and may be soft and velvety to the touch andwithout hair. Others may project definitely beyond the skin level,and be thick, pebbly and covered with hair. The growth of hair maybe thick or scanty, short or long, fine or coarse. Treatment.—The best and safest treatment, on account of the lia-bility of subsequent malignant degeneration, is early excision at oneoperation, if possible; or if the grow
Plastic surgery; its principles and practice . ation incision was raade, and the raw surfaces were grafted. Some of these moles, at birth, are depressed slightly below the levelof the surrounding skin, and may be soft and velvety to the touch andwithout hair. Others may project definitely beyond the skin level,and be thick, pebbly and covered with hair. The growth of hair maybe thick or scanty, short or long, fine or coarse. Treatment.—The best and safest treatment, on account of the lia-bility of subsequent malignant degeneration, is early excision at oneoperation, if possible; or if the growth is very large, in stages. I haveoften excised these growths and filled in the defect with a pedunculatedflap, or with an Ollier-Thiersch, or whole-thickness graft, and have hadgood results. Carbon dioxid snow may be used with success on smallareas without much hair. Supernumerary Digits (Polydactylism) By polydactylism is meant the presence of an excess number offingers or toes. In many instances heredity can be traced. MALFORMATIONS 235.
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