TY - JOUR
T1 - Time to treatment and complexity of Mohs micrographic surgery
AU - Salman, Rumsha
AU - Daly, Caroline
AU - Dani, Advika
AU - Eseonu, Amarachi
AU - Bibee, Kristin
AU - Scott, Jeffrey F.
N1 - Funding Information:
This publication was made possible by the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) which is funded in part by Grant Number UL1 TR003098 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of the Johns Hopkins ICTR, NCATS or NIH.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by a grant to KPB and JFS through the Hopkins Business of Healthcare Initiative.
Funding Information:
This publication was made possible by the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) which is funded in part by Grant Number UL1 TR003098 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of the Johns Hopkins ICTR, NCATS or NIH.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2023/8
Y1 - 2023/8
N2 - The impact of time to treatment (TTT) on the surgical management of keratinocyte carcinoma, specifically the complexity of Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS), is incompletely understood. We performed a retrospective chart review of patients undergoing MMS for keratinocyte carcinoma between July 1, 2019 and February 28, 2021 to examine associations between TTT and surgical characteristics. The median TTT for the 1571 patients treated with MMS during the study period was 42 days (interquartile range 28–61 days). In adjusted analyses, increasing TTT was not associated with increasing utilization of flap or graft repairs. Although a 42-day increase in TTT was associated with a 17.6 mm2 increase in the post-operative surgical defect size after MMS, TTT was not associated with linear repair length or flap/graft repair area. In conclusion, TTT was not independently associated with the type of repair or repair length after MMS, suggesting that the complexity of Mohs reconstruction is not influenced by TTT within the time range studied in this cohort.
AB - The impact of time to treatment (TTT) on the surgical management of keratinocyte carcinoma, specifically the complexity of Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS), is incompletely understood. We performed a retrospective chart review of patients undergoing MMS for keratinocyte carcinoma between July 1, 2019 and February 28, 2021 to examine associations between TTT and surgical characteristics. The median TTT for the 1571 patients treated with MMS during the study period was 42 days (interquartile range 28–61 days). In adjusted analyses, increasing TTT was not associated with increasing utilization of flap or graft repairs. Although a 42-day increase in TTT was associated with a 17.6 mm2 increase in the post-operative surgical defect size after MMS, TTT was not associated with linear repair length or flap/graft repair area. In conclusion, TTT was not independently associated with the type of repair or repair length after MMS, suggesting that the complexity of Mohs reconstruction is not influenced by TTT within the time range studied in this cohort.
KW - Basal cell carcinoma
KW - Mohs micrographic surgery
KW - Reconstruction
KW - Skin cancer
KW - Squamous cell carcinoma
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U2 - 10.1007/s00403-022-02519-9
DO - 10.1007/s00403-022-02519-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 36583761
AN - SCOPUS:85145190738
SN - 0340-3696
VL - 315
SP - 1797
EP - 1799
JO - Archives of Dermatological Research
JF - Archives of Dermatological Research
IS - 6
ER -