Sentence examples for compromised margin from inspiring English sources

To calculate the sample size, the study considered data from the preliminary study, mentioned above, which showed compromised margin in 4% of the specimens resulting from SWETZ, and in 20% from LLETZ-cone [ 14].

Several investigators have addressed and debated the efficacy of the technique of performing gross intraoperative examination of the BCS margins and selective immediate intraoperative re-excision of any given BCS margin that is thought to represent a suspicious or compromised margin [ 45, 46, 56, 63] as a mechanism to reduce the need for a subsequent second re-excision procedure.

Table  3 shows the results related to the surgical compromised margin in each one of the groups.

The study considered as compromised margin the one in which CIN 2 3 or microinvasive neoplasia reached the limit of the excised specimen.

Another reason for exclusion was the presence of invasive disease, a condition that increases the risk of compromised margin and this information loses clinical relevance, once the treatment will no longer be conservative.

Most exclusions were due the absence of preinvasive or microinvasive disease in the conization specimen, in which case it would be impossible to count for the compromised margin outcome.

In the ampulla and bile duct cohort 64.7% of patients (77/120) had satisfactory margins (R0) and 35.3% (42/120) of patients had compromised margins (R1).

A question that remains is if the two procedures remove similar amount of tissue, why one of them offers less compromised margins?

A preliminary study of our group found SWETZ to be more efficient than LLETZ in endocervical disease, concerning compromised margins, but with no statistical significance [ 14].

As with any proposed technique, no universal consensus has been reach on the efficacy of performing gross intraoperative examination of the BCS margins and selective immediate intraoperative re-excision of BCS margins that are thought to represent suspicious or compromised margins.

40 of 43 procedures were classified as R0 resections; 1 CHS grade-2 periacetabular resection had R1 margins due to a compromised soft-tissue margin, 1 CHS grade-1B proximal tibia had R1 margins due to a compromised bone margin, and 1 pelvic CHS grade-2A had an R2 resection also due to compromised bone margins.