TY - JOUR AU - Flurin Müller-Diesing AU - Matti Sievert AU - Bharat Panuganti AU - Marc Aubreville AU - Nils Porsche AU - Stephan Hackenberg AU - Manuel Stöth AU - Agmal Scherzad AU - Jasper Meyer AU - Markus Wirth AU - Miguel Goncalves AB - In the resection of cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas (cSCC) of the auricle, the challenge lies in ensuring a safe excision with adequate surgical margins in an aesthetically and functionally sensitive area, while keeping the resulting defect as small as possible. To contribute to achieving this goal, the present study is the first to investigate the potential of confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) as a method of optical biopsy for cSCC. BT - Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery DA - 2026/01/31 DO - 10.1007/s10006-026-01506-y IS - 1 N2 - In the resection of cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas (cSCC) of the auricle, the challenge lies in ensuring a safe excision with adequate surgical margins in an aesthetically and functionally sensitive area, while keeping the resulting defect as small as possible. To contribute to achieving this goal, the present study is the first to investigate the potential of confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) as a method of optical biopsy for cSCC. PY - 2026 SN - 1865-1569 SP - 21 T2 - Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery TI - Feasibility of confocal laser endomicroscopy as an optical biopsy method for SCC on the auricle : an exploratory study UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10006-026-01506-y VL - 30 ER -