John Glantz

Key Points español 中文 (chinese) Question How accurate are patients’ and surgeons’ preoperative estimates of the final scar length from Mohs micrographic surgery for facial skin cancers? Findings In this cross-sectional study including 101 patients, 83.2% of patients receiving Mohs micrographic surgery for skin cancer underestimated their scar size. Scars were a median of 2.2 times larger than patients expected, compared with 1.1 times larger for physicians’ estimates.