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A prospective observational study was done at the Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, a tertiary referral center for cancer care in India with an aim to assess the surgical outcomes of CO2 laser resection of oral lesions in terms of operative time, blood loss, hospital stay, postoperative pain, time to re-epithelization, pathological margins achieved and the postoperative scar. The excision was performed in 30 patients with a diagnosis of either potentially malignant lesions (leucoplakia, erythroplakia) or early cancers, i.e., carcinoma in situ or T1/T2 squamous cell carcinoma of the anterior oral cavity (tongue, buccal mucosa), adhering to standard oncological principles, and the resultant defect was left for secondary healing.
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Thomas, S., Boparai, V.S., Tiwari, V.K. et al. Prospective Evaluation of Surgical Outcome After Transoral CO2 Laser Resection of Potentially Malignant and Early Oral Malignancy. Indian J Surg Oncol 9, 407–410 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13193-018-0758-2
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