[Anatomical pathology of cutaneous head and neck carcinomas]

The author after a short summary about the morphological classification of head and neck cutaneous carcinomas, stresses the necessity of a strict interface of cooperation between surgeon and pathologist. For a better management of the patient with a cutaneous lesions suspected for malignancy is mandatory to take a biopsy and to indicate in the histological report the exact diagnosis of histotype associated with the morphological features related to prognosis.