Sentence examples for completeness of resection from inspiring English sources
Completeness of resection was defined as R0 when complete, R1 when residual disease was microscopic and R2 when macroscopic.
This is the first study, to our knowledge, where a LFOVGC was used for intraoperative assessment of the preoperative field, resected specimen, and the postresection surgical field to evaluate completeness of resection in parathyroid disease.
This has been accomplished, in part, with the combined use of preoperative parathyroid scintigraphy, intraoperative gamma detection probe, and verification of completeness of resection with serial IOPTH measurement and intraoperative pathologic frozen section evaluation of the resected tissue.
Outcomes following salvage surgery are closely associated with the completeness of resection.
The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether the TNM and metastases, age, completeness of resection, invasion, size (MACIS) classifications predicted survival time and why patients died from DTC.
Completeness of resection is defined below.
The extent of papillary carcinomas was classified according to the system of DeGroot et al (1990) and the metastasis-age-completeness-of-resection-invasion-size-score (MACIS) (Hay et al, 1993).
Secondary study end points included clinical response rate, tolerability, completeness of tumour resection (R0 resection vs R1 or R2 resection), ypT and ypN categories, operative mortality and median overall survival (OS), event-free survival (EFS).
The completeness of the resection, positive circumferential resection margin rate, and perioperative morbidity and mortality were not different between the groups.
Completeness of surgical resection is an important determinant of outcomes in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma and regional lymph node metastasis.
