What type of skin lesions can be treated by curettage and cautery?
Curettage and cautery can be used to treat skin lesions where the material that needs to be scraped off is softer than the surrounding skin. This includes skin lesions such as seborrheic keratoses, viral warts, squamous cell carcinomas in situ, pyogenic granulomas, actinic keratoses, some types of basal cell carcinomas, keratoacanthomas, and skin tags.
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