Setting up the Mohs Surgery Laboratory

Practice Patterns for Mohs Surgeons of Varying Clinical Experience: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of a Medicare Claims Database

“…There is also likely a learning curve and early inefficiencies in establishing a Mohs surgery office, including the on-site laboratory and an effective clinical/administrative team. 8,9 Later career surgeons operated marginally more on the head/neck without a difference in use of flaps/grafts. Further study is needed to investigate surgical complexity as clinicians gain years of experience because this is difficult to assess with claims data alone.…”

“…There is also likely a learning curve and early inefficiencies in establishing a Mohs surgery office, including the on-site laboratory and an effective clinical/administrative team. 8,9…”

Current Surgical Therapy of Locally Advanced cSCC: From Patient Selection to Microsurgical Tissue Transplant. Review

“…To reduce the total duration of the procedure, the Mohs surgery lab must be close to the operating room ( 60 ), complete with basic equipment needs cryostat, staining equipment and a microscope.…”

Establishing an Anatomic Pathology Laboratory at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

“…The details of setting up a Mohs laboratory, specimen-processing techniques, personnel training, and laboratory certification have been described by Thornton and Beck. 29 Briefly, we divided the laboratory into a technical area with workbenches and a microscope viewing area; that proximity facilitates feedback regarding frozen sections between the Mohs surgeon and the laboratory technologist. A computer to enter a Mohs diagnosis in the patient's EHR was made available in the laboratory.…”