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Oncology
Skin Cancers and Melanoma
Term | Definition |
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Surgical technique for the removal of certain cutaneous carcinomas that allows precise microscopic marginal control by using horizontal frozen sections | Mohs’ surgery (W/L pg. 929) |
Skin cancer that is radioresistant | Melanoma (W/L pg. 928) |
Clinical features of melanoma | Asymmetry, border irregularity, color variation, diameter greater than 6 mm (W/L pg. 916) |
Most common type of skin cancer | Basal cell carcinoma (W/L pg. 918) |
Staging methods for nonmelanomas | TNM (Mosbys pg. 202) |
Clark staging | Categorizes lesion according to invasion through levels of epidermis and dermis (Mosbys pg. 202) |
Breslow’s staging | Categorizes lesion according to vertical thickness between granular layer of epidermis and the deepest part of invasion (Mosbys pg. 202) |
Technique of applying freezing liquid nitrogen to the skin to treat nonmelanoma | Cryosurgery (W/L pg. 929) |
Kaposi’s sarcoma | AIDS associated type of skin cancer arising from vascular tissues (W/L pg. 919) |
Merkel’s cell carcinoma | Rare but aggressive type of skin cancer (W/L pg. 919) |