RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY FOLLOWING MOHS SURGERY: A CASE PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION Page 13 Abstract Background: Following Mohs surgery, defects of the nasal tip are often repaired with complex flaps and grafts harvested from distant sites. Both of these options may result in increased complications or poor cosmetic outcomes compared to simpler options. Objective: Demonstrate the utility of the B...

The incidence of skin cancer (e.g., squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, and melanoma) has been increasing over the past several years. It is expected that there will be a parallel demand for cutaneous tumor samples for biomedical research studies. Tissue availability, however, is limited due the cost of establishing a biorepository and the lack of protocols available for obtaining cl...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Microcystic adnexal carcinoma is a rare and aggressive tumor that manifests clinically as a subcutaneous nodule located on the head or neck. The tumor can be confused clinically and histologically with other benign and malignant skin lesions, often leading to inappropriate initial treatment. The chief concern with microcystic adnexal carcinoma is the elevated morbidi...

Mohs micrographic surgery is a technique used to excise skin tumors based on comprehensive surgical mapping, in which the surgeon removes the tumor, followed by a complete histological evaluation of the tumor's margins. The correlation of the presence of a tumor in histological examinations and its precise location on the surgical map result in a complete removal of the tumor with maximum norma...

BACKGROUND Mohs micrographic surgery examines all margins of the resected sample and has a 99% cure rate. However, many nonmelanoma skin cancers (NMSCs) are not readily amenable to Mohs micrographic surgery. This defines an unmet clinical need to assess the completeness of non-Mohs micrographic surgery resections during surgery to prevent re-excision/recurrence. OBJECTIVE We sought to examine...

Precise removal of nonmelanoma cancers with minimum damage to the surrounding normal skin is guided by the histopathologic examination of each excision during Mohs micrographic surgery. The preparation of frozen histopathology sections typically requires 20-45 min per excision. Real-time confocal reflectance microscopy offers an imaging method potentially to avoid frozen histopathology and prep...

Hidradenocarcinoma (HAC) is an exceedingly rare and aggressive malignant tumor of the adnexal eccrine apocrine sweat gland. Due to its low incidence rate, nonspecific clinical presentation, similar histopathological features benign hidradenoma (HA), HAC often misdiagnosed as counterpart.

OBJECTIVE We present the case of a white man with a facial nodule suspicious for basal cell carcinoma. METHODS Biopsy revealed clusters of basaloid tumor cells with peripheral palisading, consistent with a superficial spreading variant of basal cell carcinoma. RESULTS The patient was treated with Mohs micrographic surgery, with clear margins achieved after the second stage of excision. Howe...