Intra-operative spectroscopic assessment of surgical margins during breast conserving surgery

Background: In over 20% of breast conserving operations, postoperative pathological assessment of the excised tissue reveals positive margins, requiring additional surgery. Current techniques for intra-operative assessment of tumor margins are insufficient in accuracy or resolution to reliably detec...

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Main Authors: Shipp, Dustin W., Rakha, Emad A., Koloydenko, Alexey A., Macmillan, R. Douglas, Ellis, Ian O., Notingher, Ioan
Format: Article
Published: BioMed Central 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52855/