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A retrospective analysis of 75 patients undergoing primary surgical resection for squamous cell carcinoma of oral tongue between January 1997 and December 1998, in a single surgical unit, was carried out to evaluate the pattern of nodal metastasis and survival.
Twenty-eight non-atopic ex-smoker individuals (see Table 1) undergoing medically necessary lung resection were serially entered into the study: ten individuals with no COPD and no evidence of emphysema (control group) and eighteen individuals (diseased group) with moderate to severe COPD and evidence of emphysema as determined by pulmonary function tests, high-resolution computed tomography (CT), or conventional CT scan.
A summary of the operations performed on those 32 patients admittedpostoperatively to the SCU is shown in Table 2.Twenty-six patients were operated upon electively and six patients emergently.Sixteen patients underwent resection of malignant disease with curative intent,six underwent treatment for benign disease, six had palliative operations, andfour received treatment for complications of a surgical procedure performedduring a previous hospital admission.
For eight of the patients the resection specimens included unaffected kidney (termed "normal kidney") as well as tumor tissue.
In diseases that do not require tissue resection for diagnosis or therapy, it is rare to obtain tissues for analysis.