Examining Surgical Margins in the Excision of Basal Cell Carcinoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Evaluating Pre‐Excision, Post‐Excision, Post‐Fixation, and Pathological Margin Measurements

Excised skin cancers were found to undergo significant shrinkage at every stage of pathological evaluation, resulting in a surgical margin significantly narrower than the safety margin initially determined. We have clarified what the surgical margin reported by the dermatopathologist actually means. In this way, it was aimed to eliminate the disagreement between the surgeon and the pathologist and to prevent the need for additional surgery and morbidities.