Patients underestimate Mohs surgery scar size
Most of them think the scar will be half as big as it turns out, shows study
Patients who undergo Mohs micrographic surgery are often taken aback by the size of the resulting scar, a US study finds.
More than 80% of patients, when asked before their surgery to predict the size, underestimated the length of their resulting scar by about half, according to the report published in JAMA Network Open.
Study co-author Dr Joseph Sobanko,