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Leigh Neumayer, MD, MS

Arch Surg. 2008;143(1):45.

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Wijayanayagam and colleagues describe their evolving experience with TSSM. This work adds to a growing literature confirming the feasibility of TSSM for both prophylaxis and therapy.^1-4 In addition to the reported results, several issues raised by this article deserve comment.

First, the authors emphasize the need for documentation of no tumor near (defined as 2 cm by these authors and others) the NAC. In this series from San Francisco, MRI was used to estimate this preoperatively, with confirmation at final pathologic analysis. Others have recommended intraoperative frozen-section analysis, but the gold standard is the final pathologic findings.³ If this is the case and if returning the patient to the operating room to resect the NAC is of little consequence, perhaps it would be more cost-effective in most practice settings to rely primarily on the final pathologic findings.

Second, the authors point out that they are not . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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