BCC Excision Revisited

Medical University of Vienna

Status: Completed

Conditions: Eye Cancer; Eye Diseases; Basal Cell Carcinoma

Treatments: Procedure: Surgery

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05853315

1997/2019

Details and patient eligibility

About

To readdress basal cell carcinoma (BCC) in the periocular region to prove histologically controlled surgical treatment efficacy and to identify high-risk characteristics.

Enrollment: 451 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient records were reviewed for the presence of BCC and surgical excision with frozen sections control of the wound margins in the periocular region,
• conducted between 01.01.2009 and 31.12.2019.
• Periocular was defined as the area involving the medial and lateral canthus as well as the upper and lower eyelids.

Exclusion criteria

• BCCs outside of this region were excluded from this analysis,
• as well as incomplete records.