Template:Tissue selection from skin excision - Sources

Own work

Source images

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  Normal mole. Public Domain
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  Superficial basal cell carcinoma. Public Domain

References

• Handläggning av hudprover – provtagningsanvisningar, utskärningsprinciper och snittning (Handling of skin samples - sampling instructions, cutting principles and incision. Swedish Society of Pathology.
  - For number of slices and coverage of lesions, depending on size.
• Monica Dahlgren, Janne Malina, Anna Måsbäck, Otto Ljungberg. Stora utskärningen. KVAST (Swedish Society of Pathology). Retrieved on 2019-09-26.
  - For slices towards the pointy ends to determine radicality, which can be parallel to the slices through the lesions (shown), or as longitudinal slices that go through each pointy end.
• Dermatopathology Grossing Guidelines. University of California, Los Angeles. Retrieved on 2019-10-23.
  - For microtomy of the most central side at the lesion
• (2003). "The principles of mohs micrographic surgery for cutaneous neoplasia". Ochsner J 5 (2): 22–33. PMID 22826680. PMC: 3399331.
  - With a "standard histologic examination" that, in addition to the lesion, only includes one section from each side along the longest diameter of the specimen.
  - It also shows an example of circular coverage, with equal coverage distance in all four directions.
  - The entire specimen may be submitted if the risk of malignancy is high.