Surgical Margin

Preferred Label : Surgical Margin;

NCIt synonyms : Surgical Margins;

NCIt related terms : MARGINS; Margin;

NCIt definition : One of the criteria for assessment of the effectiveness of given surgical procedure in achieving the local control of a neoplasm and the adequacy of tumor removal. It is defined by the tissue plane through which the dissection has been done and the actual or potential neoplastic tissue which has been left outside the boundary of a resected specimen within the patient. There are four types of surgical margins: intracapsular or intralesional, marginal, wide, and radical.;

Alternative definition : NCI-GLOSS: The edge or border of the tissue removed in cancer surgery. The margin is described as negative or clean when the pathologist finds no cancer cells at the edge of the tissue, suggesting that all of the cancer has been removed. The margin is described as positive or involved when the pathologist finds cancer cells at the edge of the tissue, suggesting that all of the cancer has not been removed.;

NCI Metathesaurus CUI : CL1412919;

Codes from synonyms : CDR0000044531;

Details

Origin ID

C41227;

UMLS CUI

C0229985;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Margin [DeCS]
- Marginal (qualifier value) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Marginate (qualifier value) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Margination (morphologic abnormality) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Surgical margin (morphologic abnormality) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Tumor margin status (observable entity) [SNOMED CT concept]
- marginal [SNOMED Notion]
- marginal zone of embryo [UBERON concept]
CISMeF manual mappings
- Margins of Excision [MeSH Descriptor]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Surgical margins (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- surgical margins [SNOMED Notion]
Semantic type(s)
- Body Part, Organ, or Organ Component [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Margins of Excision [MeSH Descriptor]
- Surgical margin (morphologic abnormality) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Surgical margins (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- surgical margins [SNOMED Notion]
Validated automatic mappings to NTBT
- margin [Radlex concept]
concept_is_in_subset
- EWS Biopsy/Surgical Procedures Table [NCIt concept]
- EWS Variable Terminology [NCIt concept]
- GCT Biopsy/Surgical Procedures Table [NCIt concept]
- GCT Variable Terminology [NCIt concept]
- OS Biopsy/Surgical Procedures Table [NCIt concept]
- OS Variable Terminology [NCIt concept]

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