Management/clarification of parenthetical margins:
372438005 |Presence of neoplasm at deep (radial) surgical margin of excised specimen (observable entity)|
384786009 |Status of surgical lateral (mucosal/mural) margin involvement by tumor (observable entity)|
Scott Campbell to engage CAP to find historical references to disambiguate these terms and address parenthetical terms
Scott Campbell discussed with Richard Moldwin at CAP. Parenthetical margins represent historical artifacts that no longer pertain. These pertain to colorectal cancers and can be modeled appropriately with removed of parenthetical references.