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SUBMITTER: Erickson-Bhatt SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5899010 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Erickson-Bhatt Sarah J SJ Mesa Kelly J KJ Marjanovic Marina M Chaney Eric J EJ Ahmad Adeel A Huang Pin-Chieh PC Liu Z George ZG Cunningham Kelly K Boppart Stephen A SA
Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine 20171208
Thyroid nodules assessed with ultrasound and fine-needle aspiration biopsy are diagnosed as "suspicious" or "indeterminate" in 15%-20% of the cases. Typically, total thyroidectomy is performed in such cases; however, only 25%-50% are found to be cancerous upon final histopathologic analysis. Here we demonstrate optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging of the human thyroid as a potential intraoperative imaging tool for providing tissue assessment in real time during surgical procedures. Fresh e ...[more]