Clinical value of paraffin sections in association with mohs micrographic surgery for nonmelanoma skin cancers

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1631-1638

  Ebede, Tobechi L ^a   Lee, Erica H ^b   Dusza, Stephen W ^b   Busam, Klaus J ^b   Nehal, Kishwer S ^a  

^a Preferred Health Partners   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BOWEN DISEASE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CHEMOSURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOHS MICROGRAPHIC SURGERY; NON MELANOMA SKIN CANCER; PERINEURIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867102478     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2012.02570.x     Document Type: Article

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