Real-time pathology to guide breast surgery: seeing alone is not believing.

Bigio, Irving J · Clin Cancer Res · 2012

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Abstract

Tissue diagnostic techniques based on optical spectroscopy, in various incarnations, are approaching clinical reality for intraoperative guidance of surgical procedures. Examination of tissue properties by elastic light-scattering spectroscopy may constitute a preferable alternative to frozen-section pathology or touch imprint cytology for intraoperative assessment of resection margins during breast-conserving surgery.

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