Surgical margin determination in head and neck oncology: Current clinical practice. The results of an International American Head and Neck Society Member Survey

Our aim was to investigate the ways in which surgeons who perform head and neck ablative procedures on a regular basis define margins, how they use frozen sections to evaluate margins, and the effect of chemoradiation on determining tumor margins.

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