Should all excised surgical specimens be examined microscopically? A case report

BACKGROUND: Microscopic examination of all surgical specimens is controversial. CASE PRESENTATION: We report two cases where examination has revealed unexpected results that have changed patient management and treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Histopathological examination of all tissue should be considered....

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Autores principales: Raymond, Thomas M, Ibrahim, Sam, Basnyat, Pradeep S
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2828993/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-3-40
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spelling pubmed-28289932010-02-26 Should all excised surgical specimens be examined microscopically? A case report Raymond, Thomas M Ibrahim, Sam Basnyat, Pradeep S Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: Microscopic examination of all surgical specimens is controversial. CASE PRESENTATION: We report two cases where examination has revealed unexpected results that have changed patient management and treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Histopathological examination of all tissue should be considered. The benefits and disadvantages of routine examination of tissue are discussed. BioMed Central 2010-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2828993/ /pubmed/20181041 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-3-40 Text en Copyright ©2010 Raymond et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ibrahim, Sam
Basnyat, Pradeep S
Should all excised surgical specimens be examined microscopically? A case report
title Should all excised surgical specimens be examined microscopically? A case report
title_full Should all excised surgical specimens be examined microscopically? A case report
title_fullStr Should all excised surgical specimens be examined microscopically? A case report
title_full_unstemmed Should all excised surgical specimens be examined microscopically? A case report
title_short Should all excised surgical specimens be examined microscopically? A case report
title_sort should all excised surgical specimens be examined microscopically? a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2828993/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-3-40
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