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- Title
Real‐time assessment of surgical margins during radical prostatectomy: a novel approach that uses fluorescence confocal microscopy for the evaluation of peri‐prostatic soft tissue.
- Authors
Rocco, Bernardo; Sighinolfi, Maria C.; Bertoni, Laura; Spandri, Valentina; Puliatti, Stefano; Eissa, Ahmed; Reggiani Bonetti, Luca; Azzoni, Paola; Sandri, Marco; De Carne, Cosimo; Turri, Filippo; Cimadamore, Alessia; Montironi, Rodolfo; Maiorana, Antonino; Micali, Salvatore; Bianchi, Giampaolo; Pellacani, Giovanni
- Abstract
Real-time assessment of surgical margins during radical prostatectomy: a novel approach that uses fluorescence confocal microscopy for the evaluation of peri-prostatic soft tissue PCa was detected in one patient (the patient with macroscopical pT3a disease), prostatic benign glands were detected in one patient, and for the remaining patients only soft tissue was present. FCM diagnostic performance in distinguishing between non-prostatic tissue, benign prostatic tissue and PCa was high; FCM demonstrated almost perfect agreement with H&E in its depiction of all tissue types.
- Subjects
SURGICAL margin; FLUORESCENCE microscopy; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROPUBIC prostatectomy; TISSUES
- Publication
BJU International, 2020, Vol 125, Issue 4, p487
- ISSN
1464-4096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/bju.15000