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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Oral Oncol. 2017 Nov 1;75:184–188. doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2017.10.013

Table 2.

Tumor Bed Margin Characteristics.

Total, n = 227 Revision Group (n = 103) Tumor Bed Margin Group (n = 124) P value
Cases with positive glossectomy margin, n (%) 52 (50) 22 (18) < 0.001
Cases with positive tumor bed margin, n (%) 8 (8) 7 (6) 0.6
Fragmentation, n (%) 23 (22) 42 (34) 0.07
Oriented Tumor Bed Margins, n (%) 59 (57) 19 (15) < 0.001
True margin indicated Yes For all margins (in cases with > 1 tumor bed margin), n (%) 46 (45) 5 (4) < 0.001
For some margins (in cases with > 1 tumor bed margin), n (%) 13 (13) 14 (11)
Frozen versus permanent sampling discrepancy, n (%) 8 (8) 3 (2) 0.07