LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Indication guidelines for Mohs micrographic surgery in skin tumors

Cernea, Selma Schuartz; Gontijo, Gabriel; Pimentel, Eugenio Raul de Almeida; Tarlé, Roberto Gomes; Tassara, Glaysson; Ferreira, Juliana Areas de Souza Lima Beltrame; Fernandes, Victor Miguel Coutinho; Bernardo, Wanderley Marques.

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (5), 2016

Abstract: 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...

Carcinoma Basocelular/cirugía, Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/cirugía, Cirugía de Mohs/normas, Recurrencia Local de Neoplasia/cirugía, Guías de Práctica Clínica como Asunto, Neoplasias Cutáneas/cirugía, Carcinoma Basocelular/patología, Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/patología, Márgenes de Escisión, Cirugía de Mohs/métodos, Neoplasias Cutáneas/patología

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Validation of a new technique to freezing and embedding tissue in Mohs surgery, using an animal model

ABSTRACT PURPOSE: To validate the innovative Dry Ice method, comparing it with two standard methods currently used for tissue processing in Mohs surgery, the Heat Sink method and the Miami Special. METHODS: Forty eight samples of pigs kin with the standard beveled Mohs technique were used, and randomly...