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Published on Thu Jan 17, 2019

Question: We received a 3.2 cm scalp lesion excision, which the pathologist diagnosed as cutaneous melanoma with a Breslow thickness of 3.3 mm. The surgeon also submitted a superficial suboccipital lymph node identified as a sentinel node through methylene blue drainage. The pathologist processed the node in two blocks, cutting serial thin sections from three levels in each block for [...]
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