The removal or treatment of most kinds of lumps and warts is fairly straightforward, although there are lots of different kinds of lumps and warts, and various treatments to get rid of them. Come and ask us, the process is probably simpler and easier than you think.

For example, many people have small lipomas, or round local spots of fatty tissue overgrowth. Classically these have been fully excised, but a simpler approach is to either reduce them by liposuction or to inject them with phosphatidylcholine, as in mesotherapy or fat-burning injections. There is a certain risk of recurrence after these simpler approaches, but on the other hand there is not scarring at all with mesotherapy and there is only a tiny scar of several millimetres after liposuction.

Warts respond well to cryotherapy or hyfrecation. The trick here is to avoid the temptation to guarantee removal in a single treatment by resorting to overtreatment. The overtreatment of warts leads to a scar, which is a heavy aesthetic price to pay for a lesion that will, in any case, go away by itself with time. Much better, then, to treat carefully and accept a chance that a second treatment session may be required to finish the job.

As mentioned in the paragraph relating to moles, some lumps can be removed by a shave-and-cautery approach. This simple process avoids sutures and often leaves a scarless finish. It is appropriate for benign raised lumps, and the removed section is sent for histological assessment.

Of course, other lumps require full excision. Whatever your lumps, it is worth coming in to let us have a look and advise you.