Cutaneous curettage: Treatment for healthy skin

The presence of warts or molluscum makes your skin less healthy and more at risk of infection. Curettage is a quick and painless method for treating these lesions.

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What is Skin Curettage?

Curettage is a simple yet effective technique that allows you to remove superficial skin lesions, practically without damaging the surrounding skin.

Occasionally, it also allows the obtaining of material for anatomopathological examination.

It is a minimally invasive, low-risk and very effective procedure that does not leave permanent scars.

Curettage

Indications

Curettage is mainly used in the treatment of:

Molluscum contagiosum;
Viral warts;
Calluses;
Seborrheic keratoses;
Actinic keratoses.

It's the procedure of choice for treating molluscum contagiosum, a very common viral infection in children. It manifests as small, flesh-colored or yellowish papules that gradually spread.