The majority of thyroid cancer patients are diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer. A complete R0 resection significantly lowers cancer recurrence risk for high-risk papillary thyroid cancer but can be difficult to achieve because tumor margins are not easily visualized. The purpose of the present narrative review is to describe current work and future directions in fluorescence-guided thyroid cancer surgery.
Keywords: fluorescence imaging, fluorescence-guided surgery, near-infrared fluorophores, optical imaging, thyroid cancer, tumor margin imaging, tumor-targeting fluorescent probes
Cancers
Journal Article
English
42588720
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