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  Vol. 124 No. 8, August 1998 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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"Molecular Margins"

A Better Measure?

Margaret Brandwein, MD; David Yong Zhang, MD, PhD
From the Department of Otolaryngology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1998;124:841-842.

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

Since the introduction of the cold-chamber cryostat, the technique of frozen section analysis has changed little during the past 30 years.1 Frozen section analysis continues as a mainstay component of surgical resection, though it leads to an inherent tissue "tug-of-war" between the desire to preserve function and the intention to achieve adequate oncological clearance. The technique is not without limitations. Retraction of skeletal muscle around a carcinoma adds vagary to the goal of securing a particular margin distance (eg, >=5 mm). Sampling errors may cause false-negative results. Rarely, overinterpretation of radiation-induced changes or dysplasia extending into salivary ducts may result in false-positive readings. Finally, complete resection may not be possible for some tumors, despite intraoperative tissue sampling. Still, the technique of frozen sections remains a useful tool.

Barrera and colleagues,2 in this issue of the ARCHIVES, sample squamous cell carcinomas and adjacent . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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