No clinical benefit of preoperative fluorescence diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma localized in the H‐zone of the face

Background  Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common malignant skin carcinoma. Fluorescence diagnosis (FD) has been suggested as a promising method for noninvasive detection of subclinical tumour cell dissemination in BCC.

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