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B Ranganathan1, S Douglas, S Mirza
1Department of Otolaryngology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, UK. drbaskaranr@gmail.com
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
|April 25, 2009
Abstract:
Spherical cutaneous and subcutaneous lesions such as sebaceous cysts are often removed via an ellipse, particularly if they are relatively large. Deciding the width of the ellipse can be difficult. We calculated that if the width of the ellipse is one-third of the half circumference, then the wound should close satisfactorily.
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