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1Department of Endocrine and Otalaryngic/Head & Neck Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC 20307-6000, USA.
Annals of Diagnostic Pathology
|June 17, 2003
Abstract:
Occasionally, a patient will have a minimally invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx that is such a meager carcinoma that, following biopsy, the larynx is surgically removed and the pathologic specimen contains no evidence of residual carcinoma or even significant dysplasia. Such gross overtreatment is a tragedy. How does this happen and what can a pathologist do to help preclude this event?