Primary Presentations

• Describe the commonly used local anesthetics.
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of epinephrine in the local anesthetic.
• Discuss special precautions needed on the digits.
• Discuss safe dosage ranges of the common anesthetics and the potential toxicities of these drugs.
• Describe the common benign skin lesions and their treatment (papillomas, skin tags, subcutaneous cysts, lipomas).
• Describe the characteristics, typical location, etiology and incidence of basal cell and squamous skin cancers.
• Discuss the relationship (of benign and malignant skin lesions) to solar irradiation, ethnicity, previous tissue injury, and immunosuppression.
• Discuss the characteristics of malignant skin lesions which distinguish them from benign lesions.
• Describe the characteristics, typical locations, etiology and incidence of malignant melanoma.
• Discuss the relationship of melanoma to benign nevi and characteristics which help differentiate them.
• Discuss risk factors for melanoma.
• What are the lesions which have high potential for malignant transformation?
• Discuss the various types of melanoma and prognosis for each type.
• Discuss the relationship of size and thickness to prognosis. (melanoma)
• Discuss the usual treatment for cutaneous melanoma including margins, depth and lymph node management including sentinel node mapping.