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Mohs surgery
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Mohs surgery
(mōz),
n.pr a surgical technique used primarily in the treatment of skin neoplasms, especially basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma. This procedure is a microscopically controlled excision of cutaneous tumors either after fixation in vivo or after freezing the tissue. Serial examinations of fresh tissue specimens are most frequently done to ensure complete excision of the lesion.
Mohs surgery
Surgical oncology A therapy for broad-based, shallow BCC or SCCs, especially for lesions that are 1-2 cm, recurring or recurrence-prone sites–nose, eyes, ears, aggressive histologic subtypes–eg, morphea-like BCC. Cf Basal cell carcinoma, Squamous cell carcinoma.
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Defects created by Mohs micrographic surgery have edges that are not ideal for the promotion of good cosmetic closure.
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Average Medicare Part B costs, reflecting office-based but not hospital-based treatment of non-melanoma skin cancer, were $244 for diagnosis, $436 for destruction, $779 for excision and repair, $1416 for Mohs micrographic surgery and $2814 for radiation therapy and these costs were back then in 1996.
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