Pre-surgical Tumor Marking by Tattooing in Patients Offered with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (Nact) for Advance Staged Oral Carcinomas.
Anand GuptaShyam P PopatKislay DimriR P S PuniaGurvanit Kaur LehlSuurinder K SinghalPublished in: Journal of maxillofacial and oral surgery (2024)
We described a novel technique of marking the oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) tumors before the pre-operative neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT). The pre-operative NACT may shrink the tumor, making it difficult for the oncosurgeon to identify the pre-NACT tumor area to be included in the surgical resection. Difficulty lies in exact topographic replication/documentation of examination findings on superficial or mucosal surface levels, primarily due to limited surface landmarks. This technique helps to identify the pre-NACT tumor margins during surgical resection and to achieve maximum oncological safety and refining surgical planning.
Keyphrases
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- locally advanced
- lymph node
- sentinel lymph node
- end stage renal disease
- rectal cancer
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- prostate cancer
- squamous cell carcinoma
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- early stage
- radiation therapy
- density functional theory
- high grade
- patient reported outcomes
- minimally invasive
- molecular dynamics