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Associate Professor Anthony Dixon

About Dr. Anthony Dixon PhD MB BS

anthony2.JPGAssociate Professor Anthony Dixon PhD is a clinical researcher with a focus on outcomes and complications of skin cancer surgery.

He is in private practice in Geelong, Victoria Australia. Here he manages exclusively melanoma and complex head and neck skin cancer patients on referral from General Practitioners.

 

 

 

 

Some of Dr. Dixon's more substantial research publications are as follows:

1.       Dixon AJ, Dixon MP, Dixon JB. Prospective study of skin surgery in patients with and without known diabetes. Dermatol Surg 2009;35:1035-40.

2.       Dixon A, Rosengren H, Connelly T, Dixon J. Education in skin cancer management - Assessing knowledge and safety. Aust Fam Physician 2009;38:557-60.

3.     Dixon AJ, Dixon MP, Dixon JB, Del Mar CB. Prospective study of skin surgery in smokers vs. nonsmokers. Br J Dermatol 2009;160:365-7.

4.     Connelly T, Dixon A. Delineating curettage as an adjunct to excision of Basal cell carcinoma: results in 334 cases. Plast Reconstr Surg 2009;123:59e-60e.

5.     Dixon AJ, Dixon MP, Dixon JB. Skin surgery to the ear risks increased bleeding complications - a prospective study. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 2008.

6.     Dixon A. Let's get back to basics in managing melanoma. BMJ 2008;336:1033.

7.     Dixon AJ, Dixon MP, Dixon JB. Bleeding complications in skin cancer surgery are associated with warfarin but not aspirin therapy. Br J Surg 2007;94:1356-60.

8.     Dixon AJ, Dixon MP, Dixon JB. Prospective study of long-term patient perceptions of their skin cancer surgery. J Am Acad Dermatol 2007;57:445-53.

9.     Dixon AJ, Dixon MP, Dixon JB. Randomized clinical trial of the effect of applying ointment to surgical wounds before occlusive dressing. Br J Surg 2006;93:937-43.

10.  Dixon AJ, Dixon MP, Askew DA, Wilkinson D. Prospective study of wound infections in dermatologic surgery in the absence of prophylactic antibiotics. Dermatol Surg 2006;32:819-27.

11.  Dixon A, Dixon MP, Dixon JB. Reducing opposed multilobed flaps result in fewer complications than traditional repair techniques when closing medium sized defects on the leg following excision of skin tumour. Dermatol Surg 2006;32.

12.  Dixon AJ, Dixon MP. Reducing opposed multilobed flap repair, a new technique for managing medium-sized low-leg defects following skin cancer surgery. Dermatol Surg 2004;30:1406-11.

13.  Dixon AJ, Dixon BF. Ultraviolet radiation from welding and possible risk of skin and ocular malignancy. Med J Aust 2004;181:155-7.

14.  Connelly T, Mones J, Dixon A. Ulcerated Malignant Spindle-Cell Neoplasm of the Finger: Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor or Desmoplastic Malignant Melanoma? Dermatol Surg 2009.