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| Complex skin biopsies and non-GI biopsies with countable fragments | | Complex skin biopsies and non-GI biopsies with countable fragments | ||
| 1 L4E / 5 tissue fragments (frags), all fractions are rounded down | | 1 L4E / 5 tissue fragments (frags), all fractions are rounded down | ||
| 1-5 frags = 1 L4E, 6-10 frags = 2 L4E, 11-15 frags = 3 L4E, 16-20 frags = 4 L4E<br>"complex skin" includes inflammatory skin, malignancies except BCC and SCC, atypical melanocytic lesions, adnexal tumours, lymphoid infiltrates | | 1-5 frags = 1 L4E, 6-10 frags = 2 L4E, 11-15 frags = 3 L4E, 16-20 frags = 4 L4E<br>"complex skin" includes inflammatory skin, malignancies except [[basal cell carcinoma|BCC]] and [[skin squamous cell carcinoma|SCC]], atypical melanocytic lesions, adnexal tumours, lymphoid infiltrates | ||
| inflammatory skin biopsy 3 frags = 1 L4E, adnexal skin tumour 6 frags = 2 L4E | | inflammatory skin biopsy 3 frags = 1 L4E, adnexal skin tumour 6 frags = 2 L4E | ||
| Rule 1 <ref name=capacp2014/> | | Rule 1 <ref name=capacp2014/> | ||
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| Simple skin (non-complex skin) | | Simple skin (non-complex skin) | ||
| 1 L3/biopsy, 0.5 L4E/biopsy | | 1 L3/biopsy, 0.5 L4E/biopsy | ||
| biopsies > 2 cm - use [[L4E rule 4 (2014)|L4E rule 4]] | | biopsies > 2 cm - use [[L4E rule 4 (2014)|L4E rule 4]]; includes [[basal cell carcinoma|BCC]], SCC, actinic keratosis, intradermal nevus | ||
| punch biopsy of BCC = 0.5 L4E, shave biopsy of [[seborrheic keratosis]] = 0.5 L4E | | punch biopsy of BCC = 0.5 L4E, shave biopsy of [[seborrheic keratosis]] = 0.5 L4E | ||
| Rule 1 <ref name=capacp2014/> | | Rule 1 <ref name=capacp2014/> | ||