Differences in actin expression between primary and recurrent facial basal cell carcinomas as a prognostic factor of local recurrence.

Introduction: Due to a relatively high recurrence rate of facial basal cell carcinoma (BCC), its morbidity is very significant.

Aim: To analyse the expression of α-SMA, E-cadherin, Ber-Ep4 and MOC-31 as predictors of local recurrence in a group of patients with primary and recurrent BCCs of the face in correlation with histological and clinical data.

Material And Methods: The study cohort included 79 patients with facial BCC (52 with primary BCC and 27 with recurrent BCC) who were treated at the Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow in 1997-2009.

Periocular basal cell carcinoma: recurrence risk factors/when to reoperate?

Introduction: The aim of periocular basal cell carcinoma (BCC) surgery is radical excision of the tumour while maintaining eyelid functionality and facial aesthetics. Differences in management of the patients after excision of eyelid BCC with a narrow margin are described in the literature.

Aim: This study concerns the correlation between the recurrence rate in the periorbital area and the narrow safety margin of excision in the histopathological report with respect to various clinical and histopathological features.