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Background
Neck dissection is a standardized surgical procedure for patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) and plays a critical role in the choice of adjuvant treatment based on histopathological findings. Saline irrigation is routinely performed at the end of surgery. However, this irrigant is not used for diagnostic purposes.
Methods
Intraoperative irrigation of the neck...
A major molecular pathway of genetic instability in cancer is DNA mismatch repair deficiency, leading to accumulation of numerous mutations at repetitive DNA sequence stretches (microsatellites), known as high-level microsatellite instability (MSI-H). In colorectal cancer, MSI-H tumors show a clinical behavior different from microsatellite-stable (MSS) tumors. Data about the prevalence of MSI among...
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