such margin guidelines are needed because as many as two-thirds of the hundreds of thousands of suspicious skin moles removed each year in the United States require re-excision (further cutting ...

The Committee on Invasive Skin Tumor Evidence-Based Recommendations ... the researchers recommend that wide local excision include “2-cm peripheral margins with a minimum deep margin to fascia.” ...

7 For the treatment of specific types of skin lesions, surgical margins may vary, and standards should be reviewed before proceeding. Using a marking pen, design the excision with a length-to ...

October 27, 2011 — A 2-cm surgical excision ... margin caused patients no harm on average, but there was a benefit from its use. "We show that with a surgical margin of 2 cm, the skin can ...

Depending on the patient and the BCC subtype, ED&C (electrodesiccation and curettage) or imiquimod may be preferable to excision ... did not extend to the peripheral margin.” ...

CHICAGO — A surgical excision margin of 3 cm yielded significantly improved disease-specific survival but not OS in a cohort of patients with high-risk melanoma, according to findings presented ...

This future trial should be able to answer for sure the best excision margin for people with a melanoma skin cancer more than 1 mm thick. We have based this summary on information from the research ...

In order to preserve penile length and function following glans excision, a neoglans was constructed with split-skin grafting. Tumors were macroscopically removed, and all surgical margins inked.

such margin guidelines are needed because as many as two-thirds of the hundreds of thousands of suspicious skin moles removed each year in the United States require re-excision (further cutting ...