Table 1.
Clinicopathological characteristics of all included patients.
Fig 1.
Examples of the HE sections of the standard histologic examination at 4 levels (HE 1–4, upper panel from left to right) and the HE sections of the 4 additional levels (HE 5–8, lower panel from left to right). In this example, an additional nodular component was found in level 6, 7 and 8.
Table 2.
Clinicopathological characteristics of patients with a more aggressive subtype in additional step sections (levels 5–8) vs. the remaining patients.
Table 3.
Overview of HE levels of the 14 patients with a more aggressive BCC component in deeper HE slides (levels 5–8).
All patients had a deeper, nodular component. sBCC = superficial basal cell carcinoma, nBCC = nodular basal cell carcinoma.