Clinical Study
Analysis of the Impact of Intraoperative Margin Assessment with Adjunctive Use of MarginProbe versus Standard of Care on Tissue Volume Removed
Table 1
Total tissue volume removed.
| Average per patient | Control | Device | Difference |
| Initial surgery | | | | Main specimen | 61.3 cc | 59.7 cc | −1.6 cc | True positive shavings | 2.7 cc | 6.7 cc | 4.0 cc | False positive shavings | 7.7 cc | 21.1 cc | 13.4 cc |
| Total volume | 71.9 cc | 87.5 cc | 15.6 cc |
| Reexcision surgeries | | | | Tissue volume | 49.5 cc | 28.4 cc | −21.1 cc | Normalized tissue volume (normalized to breast volume) | 5.6% |
4.0% | −1.6% |
| All surgeries | | | | Total tissue volume | 84.8 cc | 93.3 cc | 8.5 cc | Normalized total tissue volume (normalized to breast volume) | 12.5% | 15.1% | 2.6% |
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