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ISRN Dermatology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 246542, 6 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/246542
Research Article
Basal Cell Carcinoma: A Single-Center Experience
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, 40000 Ankara, Turkey
Received 26 November 2012; Accepted 11 December 2012
Academic Editors: W. Vanscheidt and A. Zalewska
Copyright © 2012 Ozan Luay Abbas and Huseyin Borman. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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