ILOs

• Understand the histology features in normal skin
• Know some of the histological features you may see with inflammatory skin disease
• Know some of the histological features you might see in the three main skin cancer types (basal cell, squamous cell and melanoma).

• Why are skin lesions biopsied?
• Let’s remind ourselves of the layers of the skin again…
• Look at a skin biopsy from the scalp…
• List the layers of epidermis again…
• Let’s look at the histology of the epidermis again…
• Looking at melanocytes again…
• Why is skin pathology important then?
• Here’s the main groups of skin malignancies…

Basal Cell Carcinoma

• An example of a basal cell carcinoma…
• Define what a basal cell carcinoma even is?
• What are the clinical aspects to remember for basal cell carcinoma?
• Outline the histopathology of basal cell carcinoma…
• What are the main subtypes of basal cell carcinoma?
• A histology slide showing a nodular basal cell carcinoma…