What exactly does "occult mets" mean? Is that where the path report came back clean but that there were really cells there that the pathologist missed or that weren't in that particular slice used to make the slide?


SCC Right Lateral Tongue T2N0M0 Dx 01/12/06, Surgery 01/25/06. Partial Glossectomy, Bilateral Neck Dissection - 22 lymph nodes - all clear. No radiation.