What protocol do you follow when performing staged excision with paraffin sections for the treatment of cutaneous melanoma?
If you perform MART-1 staining, what protocol do you follow?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
Our surgical protocol is as follows:
Place marking sutures at 12 and 6-o'clock on debulk, margins, and patient (more marking sutures if a big tumor).
Take a central debulk with 1-3mm margins around visible tumor (+/- Woods lamp) for breadloaf sections. Depth of excision is down to superficial fa...
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