Background: Surgery is the best treatment for basal cell carcinoma (BCC); however, incomplete excisions are possible. Objective: Assessment of the accurateness of dermoscopy and clinical evaluation in the detection of borders of BCC and description of dermoscopic findings in clinically healthy tissue surrounding BCC. Materials and methods: Eighty-eight lesions with clinical dermoscopic diagnosis of BCC were examined clinically and dermoscopically, to delineate the correct site of surgical incision, demarcating the respective margins with colred dermographic pencils. Specific dermoscopic features were searched in the skin adjacent to the demarcated clinical margin. Results: In 29 of 88 lesions, clinical and dermoscopic margins of the tumor coincided. In the remaining 59 (67%), 10 (16.9%) presented, in the lesion area identified under dermoscopy, classical criteria for BCC and 57 (96.6%) nonclassical criteria. Differences between clinical and dermoscopic margins were significantly more frequent in superficial BCCs (p = .006). The frequency was not significantly different (p = .85) in relation to body sites. Conclusion: Dermoscopy improves the identification of margins for surgical excision in BCC. The observation of nontraditional dermoscopic criteria of BCC, mainly pink-white areas and short telangiectasias in the area between clinically and dermoscopically detected margins, helps to define the actual tumoral margins and to achieve a really radical excision.
Dermoscopic Findings in the Presurgical Evaluation of Basal Cell Carcinoma. A Prospective Study
Conforti, Claudio;Zalaudek, Iris;Pizzichetta, Maria Antonietta;Bonin, Serena;Corneli, Paola;Bussani, Rossana;Di Meo, Nicola
2021-01-01
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Background: Surgery is the best treatment for basal cell carcinoma (BCC); however, incomplete excisions are possible. Objective: Assessment of the accurateness of dermoscopy and clinical evaluation in the detection of borders of BCC and description of dermoscopic findings in clinically healthy tissue surrounding BCC. Materials and methods: Eighty-eight lesions with clinical dermoscopic diagnosis of BCC were examined clinically and dermoscopically, to delineate the correct site of surgical incision, demarcating the respective margins with colred dermographic pencils. Specific dermoscopic features were searched in the skin adjacent to the demarcated clinical margin. Results: In 29 of 88 lesions, clinical and dermoscopic margins of the tumor coincided. In the remaining 59 (67%), 10 (16.9%) presented, in the lesion area identified under dermoscopy, classical criteria for BCC and 57 (96.6%) nonclassical criteria. Differences between clinical and dermoscopic margins were significantly more frequent in superficial BCCs (p = .006). The frequency was not significantly different (p = .85) in relation to body sites. Conclusion: Dermoscopy improves the identification of margins for surgical excision in BCC. The observation of nontraditional dermoscopic criteria of BCC, mainly pink-white areas and short telangiectasias in the area between clinically and dermoscopically detected margins, helps to define the actual tumoral margins and to achieve a really radical excision.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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