Mohs micrographic surgery: a technique for total margin assessment in veterinary cutaneous oncologic surgery.
Vet Comp Oncol
; 4(3): 151-60, 2006 Sep.
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Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) is the gold standard for the excision of locally invasive cutaneous malignancies in human dermatological surgery. Using a unique horizontal sectioning technique, MMS enables 100% surgical margin assessment and provides the lowest recurrence rates for locally invasive tumours. The purposes of this preliminary study were to explore the feasibility of application of MMS in the veterinary setting and to establish practical advantages and limitations of its use in a pilot programme. It was hypothesized that MMS technique could provide 100% tumour margin assessment using frozen and/or formalin-fixed horizontal histopathologic sections. Tumour excision and colour-coded mapping were performed, and specimen tissue was fixed using either frozen sections or formalin-fixed sections. Horizontal sections were assessed for quality and presence and location of neoplastic cells based on the mapped orientation. The MMS technique was used in the excision of six squamous cell carcinomas and five mast cell tumours. In all cases, the MMS permitted 100% tumour margins examination.
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Vet Comp Oncol
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MEDICINA VETERINARIA
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NEOPLASIAS
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