Efficacy of narrow-margin excision of well-demarcated primary facial basal cell carcinomas

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 464-468

  Kimyai Asadi, Arash ^a   Alam, Murad ^a,b   Goldberg, Leonard H ^a   Peterson, S Ray ^a,c   Silapunt, Sirunya ^a   Jih, Ming H ^a  

^a DERMSURGERY ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Central Utah Multispecialty Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CHEMOSURGERY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FACE CANCER; FROZEN SECTION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROSCOPY; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; REOPERATION; SKIN NODULE; SKIN SENSITIVITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGEON; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CHEEK; FOREHEAD; FROZEN SECTIONS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIP NEOPLASMS; MANDIBULAR NEOPLASMS; MOHS SURGERY; NOSE NEOPLASMS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 23944443059     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2005.03.038     Document Type: Article

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