Three types of surgery can remove or reduce an arteriovenous malformation, a tangle of blood vessels that impede blood flow. An arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a rare, noncancerous entanglement of ...

Scar revision is a treatment that improves the appearance of a scar. Scars are part of how your body heals. Sometimes scars don’t heal the way you want them to. A scar might be large, raised, painful, ...

As a wound heals, tissue begins to grow over the wound, protecting it and replacing the damaged skin. As this fibrous tissue settles in, you develop a scar. Essentially, scars are nature’s way of ...

Top surgery will cause some scarring, which varies depending on the type of surgery people have. Maintaining good health before and after surgery and proper wound care postsurgery may help to minimize ...

Everyone deserves to feel confident in their skin. For many transgender men and nonbinary folks whose gender identity differs from the gender or sex labels they were assigned at birth, that might mean ...