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Intraoperative Assessment of Resection Margins in Oral Cavity Cancer: This is the Way

The goal of head and neck oncological surgery is complete tumor resection with adequate resection margins while preserving acceptable function and ...

Erasmus MC University Medical Center

Depth of invasion (DOI) is the most important predictor for lymph node metastasis (LNM) in early stage (T1-T2) oral cancer. The aim of this study is to validate the cut-off value of 4 mm on which the decision to perform an Elective Neck Dissection (END) is made.

Depth of invasion in early stage oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma: The optimal cut-off value for elective neck dissection.

With an incidence of 350.000 new cases per year, cancer of the oral cavity ranks among the 10 most common solid organ cancers. Most of these cancers are squamous cell carcinomas. Five-year survival is about 50%. It has been shown that clear resection margins (>5 mm healthy tissue surrounding the resected tumor) have a significant positive effect on locoregional control and survival. It is not uncommon that the resection margins of oral tumors are inadequate. However, when providing the surgeon with intraoperative feedback on the resection margin status, it is expected that obtaining adequate resection margins is improved. In this respect, it has been shown that specimen-driven intraoperative assessment of resection margins is superior to defect-driven intraoperative assessment of resection margins. In this concise report, it is described how a specimen-driven approach can increase the rate of adequate resections of oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma as well as that it is discussed how intraoperative assessment can be further improved with regard to the surgical treatment of oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma.

Yassine Aaboubout

Department of Pathology,
Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Erasmus MC University Medical Center

Intraoperative Assessment of Resection Margins in Oral Cavity Cancer: This is the Way

Yassine Aaboubout

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Erasmus MC University Medical Center

Intraoperative Assessment of Resection Margins in Oral Cavity Cancer: This is the Way

Department of Pathology,
Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery