Radio-surgery: A 25 year history of scarless mole removal

Abstract

Our 25 year experience utilizing ultra-high radio-frequency instrumentation (Ellman International, Hewlett, NY) is reviewed. By minimizing lateral heat spread, fine wire electrodes of varying shapes have been accurately employed to shave benign facial lesions and ablate facial telangiectasias with minimal trauma, recovery time, or cutaneous demarcation. Incisions and suturing were rarely necessary and surgical scars were not evident.