Suspected malignant skin excisions: Difference between revisions
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===Further workup of malignant findings=== | ===Further workup of malignant findings=== | ||
In case of skin cancer, determine whether the peripheral/radial and deep margins are clear, close or continuous.<ref name=rcpath>{{cite web|url=https://www.rcpath.org/asset/53688094-791E-4AAA-82CEC42C3CB65E35/|author=David Slater, Paul Barrett|title=Standards and datasets for reporting cancers - Dataset for histopathological reporting of primary cutaneous basal cell carcinoma|website=The Royal College of Pathologists}} February 2019</ref><ref group="notes">"Peripheral" or "radial" margins are preferred rather than "lateral", since a "lateral" margin may be interpreted as opposite to the "medial margin".</ref> A close margin has various definitions for different malignancies, but for [[basal-cell carcinoma]] and [[cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma]] it is defined as being closer than 1 mm from the edge (but yet non-continuous with it),<ref name=rcpath/><ref name=Elliott2018>1 mm as cutoff | In case of skin cancer, determine whether the peripheral/radial and deep margins are clear, close or continuous.<ref name=rcpath>{{cite web|url=https://www.rcpath.org/asset/53688094-791E-4AAA-82CEC42C3CB65E35/|author=David Slater, Paul Barrett|title=Standards and datasets for reporting cancers - Dataset for histopathological reporting of primary cutaneous basal cell carcinoma|website=The Royal College of Pathologists}} February 2019</ref><ref group="notes">"Peripheral" or "radial" margins are preferred rather than "lateral", since a "lateral" margin may be interpreted as opposite to the "medial margin".</ref> A close margin has various definitions for different malignancies, but for [[basal-cell carcinoma]] and [[cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma]] it is defined as being closer than 1 mm from the edge (but yet non-continuous with it),<ref name=rcpath/><ref name=Elliott2018>1 mm as cutoff for close margin: {{cite web|title=Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma: predictors of positive and close margins and outcomes of re-excision in Northland, New Zealand|author=Brodie M Elliott, Benjamin R Douglass, Daniel McConnell, Blair Johnson, Christopher Harmston|title=New Zealand Medical Journal|volume=131|issue=1487|date=2018-12-14|url=https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal-articles/cutaneous-squamous-cell-carcinoma-predictors-of-positive-and-close-margins-and-outcomes-of-re-excision-in-northland-new-zealand}}</ref> but 2-3 mm for [[melanoma of the skin|melanoma]].<ref name=busam2018>[https://books.google.se/books?id=oepmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA406 Page 406] in: {{cite book|title=Pathology of Melanocytic Tumors|author=Klaus J. Busam, Richard A Scolyer, Pedram Gerami|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences|year=2018|isbn=9780323508681}}</ref> | ||
===Previous biopsy=== | ===Previous biopsy=== | ||