A specimen mount for small laryngeal biopsies.
Accurate histologic interpretation of small laryngeal biopsies is often obfuscated by tangential sectioning of the specimen. The natural tendency of the tissue specimen to curl and suboptimal orientation of the specimen account for the tangential cuts. Use of a biopsy specimen mount eliminates this problem. The biopsy specimen mount also permits accurate determination of tumor involvement of deep and peripheral margins, a useful feature in the management of small areas of leukoplakia of the vocal cords. The biopsy specimen mount is therefore helpful in the endoscopic surgical management of small areas of leukoplakia of the vocal cords. The biopsy specimen mount is therefore helpful in the endoscopic surgical management of early glottic malignancy (T1s, T1), since therapy can be individualized and planned rationally with precise determination of margin involvement.
D001706:Biopsy; D006652:Histological Techniques; D006801:Humans; D007830:Larynx / Q000473:pathology*