Outpatient thyroidectomy: safety and patients' satisfaction.

Objective: To establish whether outpatient thyroid surgery is safe.

Design: Prospective, observational cohort.

Setting: Two tertiary care centres.

Complete frozen section margins (with measurable 1 or 5 mm thick free margin) for cancer of the tongue: part 2: clinical experience.

Objective: To obtain completely negative margins of 1 to 5 mm at the time of surgery for oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma by using a Mohs-like technique.

Study Design: Case series of 12 patients (4 T1, 5 T2, 2 T3, 1 T4) and a review of the literature.

Results: For the first six cases, complete, colored for precise orientation, frozen margins of high quality were obtained in a relatively short time (20-75 minutes).