Randomized comparison of mohs micrographic surgery and surgical excision for small nodular basal cell carcinoma: Tissue-sparing outcome

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1349-1354

  Muller, Frank M ^a,b   Dawe, Robert S ^a   Moseley, Harry ^a   Fleming, Colin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CHEMOSURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCISION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOHS SURGERY; NEOPLASM STAGING; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 69949175699     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01240.x     Document Type: Article

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