Cytodiagnosis of Basal Cell Carcinoma and Actinic Keratosis Using Papanicolaou and May-grunwald-giemsa Stained Tissue Smear

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Carcinoma, Basal Cell; Porokeratosis, Disseminated Superficial Actinic

Treatments: Procedure: Skin scrape

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00218868

EC-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare and evaluate the diagnostic performance of scrape cytology using two different cytological staining techniques, and to evaluate additional touch imprint cytology with that of histopathology of superficial basal cell carcinoma and actinic keratosis.

Enrollment: 66 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 105 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Histologically verified basal call carcinoma and actinic keratosis

Exclusion criteria

Morphea form of basal cell carcinoma. Pigmented form of basal cell carcinoma.

Trial design

66 participants in 1 patient group

skin scrape

Treatment:

Procedure: Skin scrape