Of these, incisional biopsy is consistently recognised as the gold standard. Thank you for visiting nature.com. While excisional biopsy may be practical in some small lesions, an incisional biopsy is usually performed at the edge of a lesion prior to its excision. Its accuracy is relative, since by nature it does not allow study of the entire lesion. We did, however, find one out of 20 incisional biopsies to be inaccurate. This procedure is carried out when the mass is small enough to be removed completely without adverse consequences. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved.ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V.
Follow-up mammograms were available for review in 39 of the cases. Basal cell carcinoma: a comparison of shave biopsy versus punch biopsy techniques in subtype diagnosis. Both patients with actinic keratosis at the time of punch biopsy were also inaccurate. We report an alternative biopsy technique, the punch biopsy, and compare the accuracy of these two biopsy techniques in diagnosing periorbital eyelid tumours.This study is a retrospective analysis of patients who have undergone initial biopsy and subsequent excision of lid tumours between 1994 and 2000. Punch biopsy technique for the ophthalmologist (letter; comment).