Tattooing for preservation of oral and oropharyngeal cancer resection margins.
En bloc composite cancer surgery for head and neck tumors is now available with reconstruction. Preoperative adjuvant therapy threatens the concept of wide resection because of alteration of tumor margins. Pre-irradiation tattooing at resection margins will preserve this fundamental surgical doctrine.
D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D010610:Pharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D013653:Tattooing / Q000379:methods*; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy