Intraoperative Evaluation of the Nipple Margin in the Decision Making for Nipple-Sparing Mastectomies
Andrea L. Barbieri MD1, Kimberly Caprio, MD2, Anees Chagpar, MD2, and Veerle Bossuyt MD1
Departments of 1Pathology and 2Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
BACKGROUND
Nipple-sparing mastectomies (NSMs) are increasingly performed for the surgical treatment of invasive and in situ breast cancer.
Evaluation of the nipple margin by frozen section (FS) is used to decide at the time of surgery whether or not to preserve the nipple.
We examined the effectiveness of this approach.
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