Three methods of cosmetic surgery—local skin flap, full thickness skin graft, and secondary intention—were evaluated for their scarring risk following Mohs microscopic surgery on the distal third of ...

For patients undergoing facial reconstruction following disfiguring cancer operations, a new technique pioneered by surgeons at UC San Francisco may enable them to look more like their former selves.

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is an inflammatory skin condition that can cause painful lumps underneath the skin. Plastic surgery, such as skin grafts and skin flaps, may help treat the condition.

A skin graft is a patch of skin removed from one area of your body (donor site) and reattached in another place (recipient site). Skin grafts can only come from your own body. You can’t receive a skin ...