Recurrence low in patients with positive margins after BCC excision: study
Recurrence developed in more patients who did not receive additional treatment and in fewer receiving non-surgical treatments.
Among patients with incompletely excised basal cell carcinoma, only about 16% with positive histopathologic margins have clinical recurrence, according to a study in Dermatology.
Dr Maria Daviti, from Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, and colleagues reported the real-life management of incompletely excised basal cell carcinoma (BCC) in a tertiary referral centre and compared recurrence rates according to management modality in a retrospective study.
