Microsurgical reconstruction of basal cell carcinoma defect of the face: a multidisciplinary approach.
This article describes a 73-year-old white man with a history of dizziness secondary to profound anemia who presented with a large basal cell carcinoma of the left front temple region. A multidisciplinary approach to the extirpation and reconstruction of this defect is presented with a review of histopathologic features and outcomes of basal cell carcinoma excision.
Villalobos
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Division of Plastic Surgery at Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.
Baldone
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Burlon
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Dixon
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D000368:Aged; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000601:surgery*; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D012883:Skin Ulcer / Q000150:complications