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In our daily practice there are several situations in which positive surgical margins are questioned. The first is a positive margin that has resulted because a tumor extending outside the prostate reaching the inked periprostatic tissue margin. A second situation is a positive margin created by an accidental surgical incision into cancerous prostate parenchyma. The third is an equivocal “positive” margin created when the surface of the pathology specimen had a disrupted appearance and the tumor reached the inked edge of the prostate. The third incidence may occur in association with either of the first two situations.
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(2008). A positive surgical margin associated with an extraprostatic extension of prostate carcinoma is a significant risk for disease progression. What, then, is the risk of a positive margin created by an inadvertent surgical incision into cancerous prostate parenchyma?. In: Questions in Daily Urologic Practice. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-72819-1_8
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