“Stretching Dermoscopy” to Delineate the Margins of Basal Cell Carcinoma on Photodamaged Telangiectatic Skin

Citation: Cerci FB, Zehnder ML, Lallas A, Werner B, Tolkachjov SN. “Stretching Dermoscopy” to Delineate the Margins of Basal Cell Carcinoma on Photodamaged Telangiectatic Skin. Dermatol Pract Concept. 2023;13(2):e2023148. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5826/dpc.1302a148

Accepted: November 4, 2022; Published: April 2023

Copyright: ©2023 Cerci et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (BY-NC-4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/, which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.

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Competing interests: None.

Authorship: All authors have contributed significantly to this publication.

Corresponding author: Stanislav N. Tolkachjov, MD, 1640 FM 544. Suite 100 The Colony, TX 75056 Phone: 972-961-7869 Email: stan.tolkachjov@gmail.com

Abstract

Keywords : dermoscopy, basal cell carcinoma, Mohs micrographic surgery, skin cancer, surgical margins

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