Racial and ethnic differences in the surgical treatment of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: A retrospective cohort analysis

Kevin J Moore; Michael S Chang; Jonathan Weiss; Suzanne M Olbricht; Rebecca I Hartman

doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2021.08.010

Racial and ethnic differences in the surgical treatment of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: A retrospective cohort analysis

J Am Acad Dermatol. 2022 Jul;87(1):245-247. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2021.08.010. Epub 2021 Aug 11.

Authors

Kevin J Moore¹, Michael S Chang¹, Jonathan Weiss², Suzanne M Olbricht³, Rebecca I Hartman⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Dermatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Dermatology, VA Integrated Service Network (VISN-1), Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
³ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Dermatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Dermatology, VA Integrated Service Network (VISN-1), Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Electronic address: rhartman@bwh.harvard.edu.

PMID: 34390786
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2021.08.010

No abstract available

Keywords: Mohs micrographic surgery; Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results; dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans; disparities; ethnicity; race; socioeconomic; treatment; wide local excision.

MeSH terms

Dermatofibrosarcoma* / surgery
Dermatologic Surgical Procedures
Humans
Mohs Surgery
Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / surgery
Retrospective Studies
Skin Neoplasms* / surgery