Feb 4, 2017 18:00
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French term

passent focalement

French to English Medical Medical (general) passent focalement
This is from a histology report following surgery. The full context reads:
CONCLUSION:
ADENOME PLEOMORPHE OU TUMEUR MIXTE, MESURANT 5.5 CM DE GRAND AXE.
Le contingent épithélial est prédominant.
Absence d'effraction capsulaire.
Absence de signe histologique de malignité.
Les limites d'exérèse **passent focalement** en zone lésionnelle.

The boundaries of the excision ???? the area of the lesion?
I'm really not too sure what it's trying to say. As far as I can tell from another accompanying letter, the surgery to remove the tumour was successful. Is it basically saying that the excision was limited to removing the affected tissue?
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Sue Davis Feb 5, 2017:
No Liz it may be focalement. I guess it doesn't make that much difference to the meaning anyway.
liz askew Feb 5, 2017:
Doesn't mean to say that it isn't used though:

Keratoses actiniques, maladie de Bowen, Keratoacanthome ... - AFIAP
www.afiap.fr/.../Keratoses actiniques, maladie de Bo...
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KERATOSES ACTINIQUES. BOWENOIDES. • Lésions atteignant focalement toute la hauteur de l'épiderme. • Aspect de CIS. • Zones moins atteintes ...
Sue Davis Feb 4, 2017:
Focalement does not appear jn FR-EN dictionaries as far as I can see it may be a typo for localement - the boundaries of the excision extend in places into the area of the lesion.

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extend focally

http://oncohemakey.com/surgical-margins/

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Melanoma - Treatments - SkinCancer.org
www.skincancer.org › Skin Cancer Information › Melanoma
Surgical excision is also called resection, and the borders of the entire area excised ... The entire procedure takes about thirty minutes for smaller lesions. ... the margins of surrounding skin are extended to 1 cm and the excision goes through ...

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Translation of Focally in English
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Translate focally in English online and download now our free translator to use ... More: English to Arabic translation of focally ... focalement, en tant que foyer
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they are talking about the "surgical margins" here
Peer comment(s):

agree Nathalie Stewart : Yes, much better choice.
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locally pass

My suggestion:
The limits of exeresis locally pass into the lesion area.

I believe what they mean is that there is a risk in this situation. In oncological surgery practice, the limits of exeresis should not normally touch the lesion area, otherwise local recurrence is more likely. Here, however, the limits of exeresis seem to be encroaching upon the lesion area, in a localized fashion.

1. Explanations of the risk:
http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/handle/2042/3872...
l’atteinte des limites d’exérèse lors d’une chirurgie conservatrice augmente le risque de récidive locale

http://www.chirurgie-viscerale.org/main/formationcontinue/mi...
Sur le plan histologique, s'il existe du carcinome ductal in situ de bordure, [...]l'exérèse doit passer à distance > 5 mm. [...] Si la résection passe en limite ou en contact avec la tumeur invasive, on doit réintervenir.

2. Explanation of 'limits of exeresis':
Not quite the same as 'boundaries of the excision.' A surgeon can determine or evaluate the limits of exeresis before actually performing an excision.
Or, by determining the limits of exeresis, the surgeon can gain more accuracy in identifying the location of a decayed lesion:

http://www.acteongroup.co.uk/products/digital-imaging/digita...


3. By 'focalement' I think they simply mean 'locally, in a localized fashion':

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/focally
Relating to a localized area.
Note from asker:
Many thanks - that's explained the general sense of the entire sentence to me.
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cuts through (the lesion) in places

I am posting this alternative because I think the use of the term "extends" is inappropriate in this context.
The scenario is of course not that the tumour is spreading but that the surgeon has cut through it !
An EN report would usually say something like: "tumour present at excision margins in places"
Peer comment(s):

neutral liz askew : but the subject of "passent" is "les limites", and there is no mention of a tumour in the sentence!
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But it is all about a tumour - l'adénome pléomorphe!
agree blkh
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www-sop.inria.fr/epidaure/...Yves.../lecture_commente_ap.pdf
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Très focalement on retrouve le même type de ... ***Les limites d'exérèse passent en peau saine*** avec marges de sécurité à 2 mm à 10h et à 4 mm en inférieur.
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