Journal Reviews

Method of surgical resection affects reporting of margins of tumours in the oral cavity

10 February 2014 | | Maxillofacial Surgery | Carcinoma, Harmonic scalpel, Margins, Shrinkage

It is important to obtain tumour-free resection margins in patients with oral cancer. Pathological processing is known to cause tissue to shrink, which affects the reported margins, and it is postulated that the method of resection also has an effect....