The Sentinel Margin: Intraoperative Ex Vivo Specimen Mapping Using Relative Fluorescence Intensity.

Stan van Keulen Naoki NishioAndrew BirkelandShayan FakurnejadBrock MartinTim ForouzanfarKristen CunananA Dimitrios ColevasNynke S van den BergEben Rosenthal

Published in: Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (2019)

Fluorescence intensity peaks can identify the region on the specimen where tumor is closest to specimen's edge on the deep surface. This technique could have broad applications in obtaining adequate margins in oncological surgery.

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