Assistant 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.
His more substantial research publications are as follows;
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dixon A, Dixon JB, Dixon MP. Reducing Opposed Multilobed Flaps Results in Fewer Complications Than Traditional Repair Techniques When Closing Medium-Sized Defects on the Leg after Excision of Skin Tumor. Dermatol Surg 2006;32:935-42.
These trials are all the largest of their type ever published.
Anthony is set to publish several further original research papers in 2008. These will be published in the leading international plastic surgery and dermatology journals. Again these upcoming works include studies that are the largest of their type ever published internationally.
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