Treatment of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma with perineural invasion using mohs micrographic surgery: Report of two cases and review of the literature

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1559-1566

  Reule, Ross B ^a   Golda, Nicholas J ^a   Wheeland, Ronald G ^b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE A;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOSURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CURETTAGE; ERYTHEMA; FACIAL NERVE; FROZEN SECTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPIGMENTATION; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; METASTASIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PERINEURAL INVASION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CARCINOMA; SKIN NODULE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TUMOR BIOPSY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOHS SURGERY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70349689900     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01276.x     Document Type: Article

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