Research Article
Basal Cell Carcinoma Pathology Requests and Reports Are Lacking Important Information
Table 2
Histopathologic features in reports of BCC.
| | Histopathologic Feature | Adequately described Number (%) | Absent from report Number (%) |
| | Histologic subtype | 119 (35.5) | 216 (64.5%) |
| | Depth of invasion | 55 ( 16.4) | 280 (83.6 ) |
| | Excision margins | 334 ( 99.7) | 1 (0.3 ) |
| | Lymphovascular invasion | 39 (11.6 ) | 296 ( 88.4) |
| | Perineural invasion | 44 (13.1 ) | 291 ( 86.9) |
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