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3.5 weeks post MOHS surgery for 2 layers. Does this look like it is healing correctly? (photo)

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Sociable2820Apr 21, 2019

A full skin graft was used from the front of my ear. I can’t get an appointment with my dermatologist until the middle of May. I am concerned the skin graft failed. Also I feel I have fluid in my ear that the skin graft was taken from.

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Dr. John Louis Ratz, MD
Dr. John Louis Ratz, MD
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Answered on Apr 23, 2019
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Dr. F. Victor Rueckl, MD (in memoriam)
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