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Retrospective Outcome Analysis of 39 Patients Who Underwent Lip Surgery for Cutaneous Carcinoma

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Purpose

The treatment of lip carcinomas needs tumor surgical resection with safety margins respect. The aim of this study was to report the oncologic and aesthetic/functional outcomes of a retrospective monocentric case series of 39 patients treated for cutaneous lip cancer.

Methods

This retrospective study assessed 56 patients who were treated for a lip carcinoma between 2008 and 2012 and included 39 patients with cutaneous lip basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma. Clinical, surgical and pathological data were reviewed, and patients were interviewed for follow-up data. A comparison was made between the marked surgical margins and the margins observed under microscopy after histologic process.

Results

The most frequent tumor type was basal cell carcinoma in 69.2 %. The measured surgical margins were superior to the histological margins in 24 cases (61.5 %) and were inferior in 13 cases (33.3 %). Overall survival and recurrence-free survival rates at 1 year were 97.5 and 95 % respectively.

Conclusion

Differences between the surgical margins and the final histologic margins were the main finding of this retrospective study. These differences were attributed to surgical practices and modification during the histological process. Nevertheless, we did not observe a higher rate of recurrence or death in our study than in literature.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Dr. Oana Hermeziu from the plastic and reconstructive surgery department for her careful review of the manuscript and the data collection. We are very grateful to Dr. Ouidad Zehou of the Dermatology Department for having provided valuable advice on our manuscript.

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  1. Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Henri Mondor Hospital, 51, avenue du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 94000, Créteil, France

    Alice Guyon, Romain Bosc, Frederic Lange, Olivier Chosidow, Pierre Wolkenstein, Barbara Hersant & Jean-Paul Meningaud

  2. UPEC, University Paris Est Creteil, Val de Marne, France

    Alice Guyon, Romain Bosc, Frederic Lange, Nicolas Ortonne, Barbara Hersant & Jean-Paul Meningaud

  3. Department of Pathology, Henri Mondor Hospital, Créteil, France

    Nicolas Ortonne

  4. Department of Pathology, Intercity Hospital of Creteil, Val de Marne, France

    Françoise Plantier

  5. Department of Dermatology, Créteil, France

    Olivier Chosidow & Pierre Wolkenstein

  6. French Satellite of the Cochrane Skin Group, Créteil, France

    Olivier Chosidow & Pierre Wolkenstein

  7. Centre d’investigation Clinique Inserm 006 and EA 439, Créteil, France

    Olivier Chosidow & Pierre Wolkenstein

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Guyon, A., Bosc, R., Lange, F. et al. Retrospective Outcome Analysis of 39 Patients Who Underwent Lip Surgery for Cutaneous Carcinoma. J. Maxillofac. Oral Surg. 15, 478–483 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12663-015-0878-y

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