How to excise tissue for optimal sectioning / Ken Gross -- Optimizing the Mohs microscope / Ken Gross -- Tissue preparation and chromacoding / Howard K. Steinman -- Embedding techniques / Edward H. Yob -- Lab pearls : how to make great slides and preparing slides with cartilage / Alex Lutz and Michael Shelton -- Lab pearls : staining, inking, and coverslipping / Alex Lutz -- Lab pearls : troubleshooting slide quality / Alex Lutz -- Mohs slide organization and standardization for effective interpretation / Ken Gross -- Mohs mapping / Howard K. Steinman -- Normal microanatomy : vertical & horizontal / John Campbell -- Basal cell carcinoma : vertical and horizontal / A. Neil Crowson and Carlos Garcia -- Squamous cell carcinoma : vertical and horizontal / A. Neil Crowson and Edward H. Yob -- Unusual tumors : vertical and horizontal / Terence O'Grady -- Mohs for melanoma / Adam J. Mamelak and Arash Kimyai-Asadi -- Taking stages beyond stage i / Tri H. Nguyen -- Perineural tumors / Alexander Miller -- Fixed tissue mohs / Laura T. Cepeda, Daniel Siegel, and Norman Brooks -- Toluidin blue stain for mohs micrographic surgery / Ofer Arnon, Adam J. Mamelak, and Leonard H. Goldberg -- Forms and templates for mohs surgery / Ken Gross and Howard K. Steinman.