Mohs micrographic surgery is a tissue-sparing technique that allows for excision of cutaneous tumors under complete microscopic margins control. Mohs surgery boasts high cure rates and maximum tissue conservation. We introduce the double-blade scalpel in Mohs surgery as a timesaving and easy way to harvest tissue strips of uniform width and therefore increase the intraoperative efficiency of th...

Mohs chemosurgery, using the fixed-tissue technique, was proposed for the treatment of melanoma by Frederic Mohs in 1950.[1] In numerous publications since, Mohs reported cure rates at least comparable to those obtained with the conventional surgical therapies of the time. Initially, Mohs believed that the in situ tissue fixation with zinc chloride paste inherent in the fixed-tissue technique w...

BACKGROUND Telepathology is an expanding technology in multiple fields for remote pathology diagnosis and consultation. The use of telepathology in Mohs surgery has been very limited. OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical experience of using a telepathology system for intraoperative consultations on difficult frozen sections during Mohs surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS Intraoperative consultatio...

Little is known about the practice characteristics of Mohs surgery performed by physicians who learned the procedure during their dermatology residency training or through postresidency courses and observational preceptorships. All published reports have investigated Mohs surgeons trained in postresidency fellowships. This report presents the results of a multicenter prospective cohort study ev...

BACKGROUND Improved control of cutaneous malignancies using Mohs micrographic pathologic clearance has been well established. However, surgical margin control of advanced and complex cutaneous tumors of the head and neck is commonly performed by far less reliable frozen section margin analysis. OBJECTIVE To describe a routine and ideal collaboration between dermatologic surgery and facial pla...

OBJECTIVE To make available a simple, quantitative formula for preoperative assessment of both the complexity and the associated time required to complete Mohs surgical cases. It will improve office efficiency, technical performance, and resource management. DESIGN Surveys were sent to 94 Mohs surgeons requesting information on 10 consecutive cases, including tumor size, recurrence, location,...

BACKGROUND Nonmelanoma skin cancer rates are increasing worldwide. Mohs micrographic surgery and surgical excision (SE) are the two treatment methods for this type of cancer. The current paper aims at determining and comparing the cost-effectiveness of SE and Mohs micrographic surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS The current study has a retrospective cohort design. A number of 630 patients sufferin...

background: nonmelanoma skin cancer rates are increasing worldwide. mohs micrographic surgery and surgical excision (se) are the two treatment methods for this type of cancer. the current paper aims at determining and comparing the  cost-effectiveness of se and mohs micrographic surgery. materials and methods: the current study has a retrospective cohort design. a number of 630 patients sufferi...

Mohs chemosurgery, using the fixed-tissue technique, was proposed for the treatment of melanoma by Frederic Mohs in 1950.[1] In numerous publications since, Mohs reported cure rates at least comparable to those obtained with the conventional surgical therapies of the time. Initially, Mohs believed that the in situ tissue fixation with zinc chloride paste inherent in the fixed-tissue technique w...

Mohs micrographic surgery is a surgical technique that allows the excision in successive layers of cutaneous malignancies with the higher cure rates. At the same time, this surgical technique offers the maximal preservation of normal tissue. That is possible because Mohs surgery provides the advantage of microscopically controlled tumor-free borders in each stage guiding the surgeon in the tumo...