Structural Description of Skin Biopsies With Dynamic Full-field Optical Coherence Tomography on Suspected Basal Cell Carcinoma Lesions, a Pilot Study (DOCTOBA)

Provide a better understanding of the ability of dynamic full-field optical coherence tomography to identify and characterize the usual basal cell carcinoma, comprising basaloid cells with a thin pale cytoplasm surrounding round or oval nuclei with a rough granulated chromatin pattern, palisade arrangement, artificially created slits, rather chaotic internal arrangement, mitoses and necrosis ; but also to identify the different sub-types of basal cell carcinoma (nodular, superficial, infiltrating, scleroderma).

Provide a better understanding of the ability of dynamic full-field optical coherence tomography to identify the normal structures of the skin (meaning not affected by carcinoma), i.e. the different layers of the skin (epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous tissue) and the skin appendages (hair follicles and glands), also to recognize the different cells and components (keratinocytes, melanocytes, Langerhans cells, Merkel celles and collagen) and underlayers (stratum corneum, stratum granulosum, stratum spinosum, stratum basale, epidermal cretes, dermo-hypodermic junction, papillary dermis and reticularis dermis).