Tlynam
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      • March 18, 2020 at 12:55 am
      Tlynam
      Participant
        That is a great result. Congratulations. Sounds like I should have used your surgeon.
        • March 18, 2020 at 12:52 am
        Tlynam
        Participant
          Mark, thanks . That is interesting. After several surgeries on my scalp, I am hesitant to go back and have another. But the expander suggestion sounds promising. I will look into it.
          • March 16, 2020 at 2:31 pm
          Tlynam
          Participant
            Hitchens, thanks for the info. How wide in diameter was your graft? Mine is about 5 inches and so I think is way too wide to stretch existing skin over it to cover it. On some of my previous scalp melanomas I had that done. But after the fourth melanoma on the scalp, my doctor said the protocol was to excise a much larger area and do a full thickness graft. It was too big an area to stretch the adjacent skin. But the graft doesn’t fully blend and mesh at the margins and is prone to redness and small tears.
            • March 15, 2020 at 4:37 pm
            Tlynam
            Participant
              Thanks. i don’t understand what you mean when you say he removed the graft and replaced it with the skin that was originally there. Wasn’t the original skin removed? Can you please clarify?
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