I've learned a little more about what is going on. The ENT is doing an excisional biopsy, according to the papers we received from the surgery center.

And a week before his scheduled surgery, my husband's also seeing an ENT at Hopkins for a second opinion, so the slides from the first biopsy will indeed be read by a second lab.

Leslie

April 2006: Husband dx by dentist with leukoplakia on tongue. Oral surgeon's biopsy 4/28/06: Moderate dysplasia; pathology report warned of possible "skip effect." ENT's excisional biopsy (got it all) 5/31/06: SCC in situ/small bit superficially invasive. Early detection saves lives.