Can the Safe Surgical Margin Be Narrowed in Early-Stage Facial Basal Cell Carcinoma?
Mümtaz Taner Torun,
Gülden Taşova Yılmaz
Abstract:OBJECTIVE
To examine factors that affect the positive surgical margins of facial basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and investigate whether the surgical margin value can be narrowed in early-stage facial BCCs.
METHODS
Ninety-five patients were divided into the three groups based on prognosis: good (n = 48), mixed (n = 32), and poor (n = 15). The good prognosis group (group 1) included nodular and superficial subtypes; the mixed prognosis group (group 2) include… Show more
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