Immediate pathological analysis of specimens
This is not necessary for most cases, but useful where the margins are ill defined or for difficult recurrent cancers on the face.
In this ‘frozen-section’ procedure, we excise the lesion and cuts are made of the specimen similar to slicing a cake.
Our Pathologist (We use a fully qualified NZ pathologist with a special interest in Dermatopathology for our pathology work) will examine the specimen during or immediately after the initial excision and will be able to report areas (each slice is numbered making identification easy) where further tissue needs to be removed. After this excision and confirmation that all the cancer has been removed, the wound is reconstructed, on the same day.
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