Open AccessDoes diagnostic accuracy of surgeon's perception outweigh frozen section analysis in determining intraoperative clear mucosal surgical margins in oral squamous cell carcinoma patients?
Author(s) -
Chetan Gupta,
Nitin Bhola,
Anendd Jadhav,
Aditya Mishra,
Pawan Hingnikar,
Chinmay Ghavat
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
national journal of maxillofacial surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-3418
pISSN - 0975-5950
DOI - 10.4103/njms.njms_50_20
Subject(s) - medicine , frozen section procedure , histopathology , basal cell , gold standard (test) , surgery , radiology , nuclear medicine , pathology
The lucrativeness of the frozen section for intraoperative margin assessment in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma is debatable till date. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether surgeon's perception by gross examination (GE) of margin is an alternative to frozen section.