Evaluation of suspected malignancies: Difference between revisions
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Put your main '''focus''' on features that will determine the final stage. For example, if you see a lymph node involved by cancer, the presence or absence of lymphatic invasion is no longer critical, but rather the presence or absence of additional involved nodes or distant metastasis. | Put your main '''focus''' on features that will determine the final stage. For example, if you see a lymph node involved by cancer, the presence or absence of lymphatic invasion is no longer critical, but rather the presence or absence of additional involved nodes or distant metastasis. | ||
'''Nx: lymph nodes cannot be assessed''' also applies when you only find lymph nodes that are not within the physiologic drainage path of the cancer, and they are benign. | |||
==Radicality== | ==Radicality== | ||