Can surgery remove thin-skin caused by using steroid cream to treat eczema?
Friday, December 4th, 2009 at
6:14 pm
I have a friend who used a steroid cream for a long time to treat her eczema. Now she has very thin-skin that half wraps around both inner thighs that looks almost like stretch marks. We know there’s not creams that will help the thin skin but…
Is it possible to have the thin-skin surgically removed and if so…
- what type of doctor handles this type of surgery?
-what might this type of surgery be called?
-would she be left with an even bigger scar from the surgery?
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i don’t know if the surgery could be done but a dermatologist (skin doctor) would do the procedure, It would most likely be a skin graft type of procedure, they would need to get skin from someone else to put on top of the thin shin (usually they take it from the butt, or lower legs). About the scars i don’t reall know