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| ==Sampling, by specimen type==
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| In malignant or suspected malignant cases, surgical margins are generally more important than main tumor diagnosis.
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| *In [[lung wedge resection and lobectomy]], sample the surgical margin that is presumably closest to a tumor for frozen sectioning. {{further|Lung wedge resection and lobectomy}}
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| *In an [[intestine with tumor]], it is generally enough to open the intestine (avoiding cutting through a tumor unless it is corcumferantial, and grossly measuring the distances to the proximal and distal surgical margins, as well as the distances to the radial or mesenteric surgical margins. {{further|Intestine with tumor}}
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