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Blunt Dissection
Aka: Blunt Dissection
- Indication
- Plantar Wart
- Advantages over other surgical techniques (e.g. ED&C)
- Does not disturb normal tissue
- Efficacy
- Cure rate in Plantar Warts approaches 90%
- Equipment
- Blunt Dissector or
- Schamberg acne expressor
- Technique
- Administer Local LidocaineAnesthesia
- Outline edge of lesion
- Insert blunt tipped scissors between wart and skin
- Move tip circumferentially around wart
- Creates plane of dissection (separate wart from skin)
- Insert blunt dissector into cleavage plane
- Use short strokes to separate wart from skin
- Wart scooped out in one piece
- After Care
- Apply new bandage daily for first 3-4 days
- Leave lesion uncovered after first 3-4 days
- References
- Habif (1996) Dermatology, p. 818
- Pringle (1973) Arch Dermatol 108:79-82 [PubMed]