Detection of Melanoma Metastases in Resected Human Lymph Nodes by Noninvasive Multispectral Photoacoustic Imaging

Objective. Sentinel node biopsy in patients with cutaneous melanoma improves staging, provides prognostic information, and leads to an increased survival in node-positive patients. However, frozen section analysis of the sentinel node is not reliable and definitive histopathology evaluation requires...

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Main Authors: Gerrit Cornelis Langhout, Diederik Johannes Grootendorst, Omgo Edo Nieweg, Michel Wilhelmus Jacobus Maria Wouters, Jos Alexander van der Hage, Jithin Jose, Hester van Boven, Wiendelt Steenbergen, Srirang Manohar, Theodoor Jacques Marie Ruers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/163652