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. 2012 Dec 31;15(4):420–426. doi: 10.4048/jbc.2012.15.4.420

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Definitions of surgical margin status. (A) Negative surgical margin means that the tumor is removed with more than 5 mm of free distances from resection margin. (B) Positive surgical margin (black arrow) is defined as when tumor cells are found on the resection margin. (C) Multiple positive surgical margin (black arrows) is defined as when tumor cells are found on more than two points of the resection margins.