Table
1:
Treatment modalities of periorbital BCC.
|
Treatment
modality |
Indications |
|
Mohs micrographic surgery |
The best choice of removing BCC on the eyelid with wide surgical
excision |
|
Exenteration |
Bulbar or extensive orbital invasion |
|
Radiotherapy |
Combined with, when margins are not clear or followed by, exenteration
of high-risk histological subtype (morphoeic/infiltrative, micronodular or
basosquamous) with perineural invasion |
|
Vismodegib
|
Adjuvant therapy of periocular and orbital BCC for patients who cannot
tolerate surgery or radiotherapy, or with relapsed locally advanced disease
after surgery or metastatic disease |
|
Imiquimod |
A topical immunotherapy for periocular BCC, especially periocular
nodular BCC |