BACKGROUND Our aim was to investigate the ways in which surgeons who perform head and neck ablative procedures on a regular basis define margins, how they use frozen sections to evaluate margins, and the effect of chemoradiation on determining tumor margins. METHODS A custom-designed questionnaire was mailed to members of the American Head and Neck Society asking members how they evaluate and...

OBJECTIVES To show the importance of frozen section-controlled excision to avoid the re-recurrence of recurrent basal cell carcinoma (BCC) of the eyelids. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-five cases who underwent eyelid tumor excision in different centers and were admitted to our clinic with recurrent eyelid tumors. Recurrent tumors were resected by excision 1-2 mm from the tumor's visible margin...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The impact of margin status on the outcomes of early glottic cancer after endoscopic resection is controversial; second look laryngoscopy has shown a low rate of residual cancer, even in margin positive patients. Intraoperative frozen section analysis has been suggested as an alternative to routine second look procedures. The aim of this study was to evaluate and search fo...

BACKGROUND Intraoperative parathyroid hormone level (IOPTH) is withdrawn during parathyroidectomy to confirm the success of the procedure. Recently, the importance of IOPTH has been put to question. The purpose of this study is to determine whether IOPTH is necessary for all patients undergoing parathyroidectomy in the presence of frozen section. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cohort study of parath...

Early and accurate detection of bone tumors and their staging are important since some of them are highly malignant. Intraoperative pathological consultation in bone tumors and tumor-like conditions is quite complex; however, it allows improvement in prognosis and limb salvage. Present study was conducted on 52 patients who underwent surgical procedure after clinical and radiological diagnosis ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the accuracy of intraoperative assessment of the node-negative N0 neck with frozen-section biopsy. METHODS In our study, 60 patients 9 women and 51 men who underwent 88 elective neck dissections with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology Medical Faculty, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey, from January 2003 to December 2006, wer...