Hitchens, thanks for the info. How wide in diameter was your graft? Mine is about 5 inches and so I think is way too wide to stretch existing skin over it to cover it. On some of my previous scalp melanomas I had that done. But after the fourth melanoma on the scalp, my doctor said the protocol was to excise a much larger area and do a full thickness graft. It was too big an area to stretch the adjacent skin. But the graft doesn’t fully blend and mesh at the margins and is prone to redness and small tears.
