Minor Procedures
Minor surgery is any invasive operative procedure in which only skin or mucus membranes and connective tissue is resected e.g. vascular cutdown for catheter placement, implanting pumps in subcutaneous tissue.
Minor Procedure list
Skin cancer removal
- Actinic keratoses
- Seborrhoeic keratoses
- Warts and verrucae
- Lentigines
- Skin tags
- Superficial spreading basal cell carcinoma
- Basal cell carcinoma
- Excisions
- Toenail removal
- Implanon removal and insertion
- Cryotherapy
- Skin biopsy (punch and shave)
- Suture and Staple removal
- Catheter removal
- Cyst/abscess incision and drainage
- Foreign objects removal
- Mirena removals