Pancreatic Cancer Surgical Resection Margins: Molecular Assessment by Mass Spectrometry Imaging.

BACKGROUND:Surgical resection with microscopically negative margins remains the main curative option for pancreatic cancer; however, in practice intraoperative delineation of resection margins is challenging. Ambient mass spectrometry imaging has emerged as a powerful technique for chemical imaging...

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Main Authors: Livia S Eberlin, Katherine Margulis, Ivette Planell-Mendez, Richard N Zare, Robert Tibshirani, Teri A Longacre, Moe Jalali, Jeffrey A Norton, George A Poultsides
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-08-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5019340?pdf=render