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Using quantitative tissue phenotype to assess the margins of surgical samples from a pan-Canadian surgery study.
Head & neck - 1 Jun 2018
Guillaud Martial, MacAulay Calum E, Berean Kenneth W, Bullock Martin, Guggisberg Kelly, Klieb Hagen, Puttagunta Lakshmi, Penner Carla, Kwan Keith, Rosin Miriam P, Poh Catherine F
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BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to use quantitative tissue phenotype (QTP) to assess the surgical margins to examine if a fluorescence visualization-guided surgical approach produces a shift in the surgical field by sparing normal tissue while catching high-risk tissue. METHODS: Using our QTP to calculate the degree of nuclear chromatin abnormalities, Nuclear Phenotypic Score (NPS), we analyzed 1290...
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