Review Article
Preoperative Localization and Surgical Margins in Conservative Breast Surgery
Table 1
Local recurrence rates and corresponding threshold distances for negative margins are indicated for each study.
| Study | Surgical margins | Local recurrences |
| Horiguchi et al., 2002 [9] | 5 mm | 3.2% | Karasawa et al., 2003 [10] | 5 mm | 1.7% | Perez, 2003 [11] | 3 mm | 5.8% | Peterson et al., 1999 [8] | 2 mm | 12.8% (*) | Santiago et al., 2004 [12] | 2 mm | 12.2% | Karasawa et al., 2005 [13] | 2 mm (2.1–5 mm) | 3.4% (6.3%) | Gage et al., 1996 [5] | 1 mm | 10.5% (*) | Park et al., 2000 [7] | 1 mm | 16% (*) | Kreike et al., 2008 [14] | 1 mm | 11.5% |
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Average percentage calculated from single LRRs for each type of margins status.
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