New imaging modalities for determining the tumor margins of basal cell carcinoma

• DOI: 10.7188/bvsz.2024.100.3.3
• Publication Date: 2024-07-26T12:42:56Z
• Authors: Mehdi Boostani; ; Phyllida Kerstin ...; Szabolcs Bozsányi; Klára Farkas; Boglárka Szabó; András Bánvölgyi; Kende Lőrincz; Péter Holló; Norbert Wikonkál; Wendy Huss; György Paragh; Norbert Kiss
• Keywords: Modalities

Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) is a highly effective treatment for basal cell carcinomas (BCC). It involves removing the tumor tissue after clinical assessment and immediately verifying margins with frozen section histopathology. This ensures highest level of margin evaluation cure rate all currently available procedures. Non-invasive imaging technologies, such as high-frequency ultrasound (HFUS), optical coherence tomography (OCT), line-field (LC-OCT), reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM), offer promising alternatives to defining presurgical margins. Here, we review four techniques: HFUS, OCT, LC-OCT, RCM BCC determination. These modalities may streamline MMS, inform patients expected defect size reconstruction needs cut procedure costs. aims present benefits drawbacks these techniques help dermatologists understand how change care.