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Surgical Dermatopathology deals with laboratory issues and addresses the histopathology of cutaneous tumors. Chapters devoted to frozen sections, permanent sections, and Mohs fixed tissue provide the essentials of tissue preparation, while a special chapter, Laboratory Safety and Regulations, represents a concise guide to lab protocols.

Table of Contents:

Contributors
Preface
1 Frozen Section Preparation 1
2 Permanent Section Preparation 17
3 Mohs Fixed Tissue Preparation 49
4 Cytopathology 79
5 Laboratory Safety and Regulations 95
6 Determining Cancer at Surgical Margins 107
7 Normal Skin Structures and Variants 123
8 Artifacts in Frozen and Permanent Section Preparation 149
9 Basal Cell Carcinoma 163
10 Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma 183
11 Melanoma 225
12 Soft Tissue Sarcomas 255
13 Sebaceous Carcinoma 297
14 Selected Eccrine and Apocrine Tumors 313
15 Miscellaneous Tumors 371
16 Metastatic Carcinoma 389
17 Simulators in the Histopathology of Cutaneous Tumors: Frozen and Permanent Sections 437
Index 487