Our new method was as reliable as the inked margins employing sequential slicing of the entire tissue, although it reduced the number of blocks by more than half in invasive carcinomas. A further advantage of this method is that the accuracy in margin evaluation is not influenced by the extent of tumour sampling. In addition, our system can pinpoint the positive margins facilitating re-excision to obtain tumour-free margins.
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