Techniques Incorporated into Fusiform Excision

• Excision aligned with lines of least skin tension
• Local or field block anesthesia
• Sterile draping of surgical site
• Smooth, continuous incisions with scalpel
• Lifting skin edges using skin hooks
• Undermining of skin edges
• Placement of interrupted, deep, buried, subcutaneous sutures
• Simple, interrupted skin sutures
• Placement of sutures using halving technique
• Eversion of wound edges
• Moist wound healing using antibiotic or other ointment