Dr. David Joel Leffell MD
Dermatologist
40 Temple St 5th Floor, Suite 5a New Haven CT, 06510About
Dr. David Leffell is a dermatologist practicing in New Haven, CT. Dr. Leffell specializes in skin care. Dermatologists evaluate and manage both common and uncommon skin conditions. These conditions include acne, psoriasis, warts, skin infections, atopic dermatitis, herpes simplex and more. Dermatologists are also experts in more complex skin diseases like impetigo, hidradenitis and milaria. Dr. Leffell diagnoses skin problems and develops unique treatments plans for each individual patient.
Education and Training
McGill University Faculty of Medicine 1981
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Use of a lyophilized bovine collagen matrix in postoperative wound healing.
- Mohs surgery: the informed view.
- Flip-top pigment transplantation: a novel transplantation procedure for the treatment of depigmentation.
- The scientific basis of skin cancer.
- Boxer shorts, gummy bears and lasered hairs.
- Intralesional interferon alfa for treatment of recurrent lentigo maligna of the eyelid in a patient with primary acquired melanosis.
- The other side of the sun.
- Repair of a defect of the lower lip.
- Human cadaveric allograft for repair of nasal defects after extirpation of Basal cell carcinoma by Mohs micrographic surgery.
- Histopathologic misdiagnoses and their clinical consequences.
- Clinical efficacy of devices for nonablative photorejuvenation.
- Complications in dermatologic surgery: how safe is safe?
- Lasers in dermatology and ophthalmology.
- Water-in-oil emollients as steroid-sparing adjunctive therapy in the treatment of psoriasis.
- Bilobed transposition flap.
Treatments
- Skin Cancer
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