Mohs Surgery and Histopathology Beyond the Fundamentals (Cambridge University Press) 2009

Mohs Surgery and Histopathology Beyond the Fundamentals is a highly effective technique for the surgical removal of most types of cutaneous and oral pharyngeal cancers. The procedure allows for the precise and complete removal of cancers while maximizing the preservation of surrounding normal tissue. Through the presentation and orientation of the specimens’ complete surgical margin on pathology slides, the location of tumor foci and other relevant findings can be correlated with their locations on the surgical wound. The ability to create perfect slides for histological examination lies at the core of effective Mohs surgery. This procedure has the highest cure rate among alternative cancer treatment modalities for the cancers for which it is utilized.
This book describes the methods the Mohs surgeon-pathologist and Mohs technician use to optimize the Mohs technique and produce the highest-quality slides and highest cure rates possible, and it breaks new ground in describing techniques that the Mohs technician uses in the lab.

About the Author

• Ken Gross, MD, is non-salaried Clinical Professor in the Division of Dermatology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, and is also in private practice limited to the treatment of skin cancer in San Diego, California.
• Howard K. Steinman, MD, is Director of Dermatologic and Skin Cancer Surgery and Associate Professor of Dermatology at the Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center College of Medicine, Scott and White Medical Center, Temple, Texas.

Contents
Part I Microscopy and tissue preparation
Chap. 1. Introduction
Chap. 2. How to excise tissue for optimal sectioning
Chap. 3. Optimizing the mohs microscope
Chap. 4. Tissue preparation and chromacoding
Chap. 5. Embedding techniques
Part II Introduction to laboratory techniques
Chap. 6. Lab pearls: making great slides preparing slides with cartilage
Chap. 7. Lab pearls: staining, inking, and coverslipping
Chap. 8. Lab pearls: troubleshooting slide quality
Chap. 9. Mohs slides organization and standardization for effective interpretation
Chap. 10. Mohs mapping
Part III Microanatomy and neoplastic disease
Chap. 11. Normal microanatomy: vertical and horizontal
Chap. 12. Basal cell carcinoma: vertical and horizontal
Chap. 13. Squamous cell carcinoma: vertical and horizontal
Chap. 14. Unusual tumors: vertical and horizontal
Chap. 15. Mohs for melanoma
Chap. 16. Taking stages beyond stage i
Chap. 17. Perineural tumors
Part IV Special techniques and stains
Chap. 18. Fixed-tissue mohs
Chap. 19. Toluidine blue stain for mohs micrographic surgery
Chap. 20. Forms and templates for mohs surgery
Index

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