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. 2013 Jun 19;15(10):814–821. doi: 10.1111/hpb.12137

Table 2.

Pathology of the final surgical margin in 192 patients who underwent a resection for non-invasive intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN)

Margin
PanIN or IPMN at margin (n = 86) 45%

IPMN at final margin

 None (n = 154) 80%

 Low grade (n = 17) 9%

 Moderate grade (n = 15) 8%

 High grade (n = 6) 3%

PanIN at final margin

 None (n = 138) 72%

 1 (n = 33) 17%

 2 (n = 17) 9%

 3 (4) 2%

Frozen section (n = 44) 23%

Path on frozen

 Negative (n = 27) 61%

 Low grade IPMN (n = 12) 27%

 Moderate grade IPMN (n = 3) 7%

 High grade IPMN (n = 1) 2%

 PanIN (n = 1) 2%