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Handling of the Surgical Specimen and Pathology Reporting of Penile Neoplasms

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The pathology report supplies important information to guide the therapeutic approach and predict prognostic expectations in penile neoplastic disease. It provides the histological diagnosis and subtype as well as other factors affecting prognosis such as histological grade, site or sites of growth, size, thickness, anatomical depth of invasion and vascular or perineural infiltration. In circumcision specimen reports, the margins of resection to be examined are the coronal sulcus, the mucosal and cutaneous margin, whereas in penectomy specimens the urethral/periurethral, corporal, and cutaneous margins have to be investigated.

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  1. Pathological Anatomy, Polytechnic University of the Marche Region, School of Medicine, United Hospitals, Ancona, Italy

    Rodolfo Montironi, Roberta Mazzucchelli & Marina Scarpelli

  2. Medical Oncology, Polytechnic University of the Marche Region, School of Medicine, United Hospitals, Ancona, Italy

    Matteo Santoni & Valeria Sotte

  3. Department of Pathology and Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain

    Antonio Lopez-Beltran

  4. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Liang Cheng

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Montironi, R. et al. (2016). Handling of the Surgical Specimen and Pathology Reporting of Penile Neoplasms. In: Colecchia, M. (eds) Pathology of Testicular and Penile Neoplasms. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27617-5_14

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