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ArticleJournal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine2019

The Clinical Application of Fluorescence-Guided Surgery in Head and Neck Cancer.

Stan van Keulen, Naoki Nishio, Shayan Fakurnejad, Andrew Birkeland, Brock A Martin, Guolan Lu, Quan Zhou, Stefania U Chirita, Tymour Forouzanfar, A Dimitrios Colevas and 2 more

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Article in Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

66 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Interim Phase II Results Using Panitumumab-IRDye800CW during Transoral Robotic Surgery in Patients with Oropharyngeal Cancer.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2024
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  14. Intraoperative fluorescence in solid head and neck cancer: A scoping review.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2025
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  19. The impact of histology and molecular biology in refining the prognostic value of surgical margins in head and neck oncology - A narrative review.Acta otorhinolaryngologica Italica : organo ufficiale della Societa italiana di otorinolaringologia e chirurgia cervico-facciale · 2025
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  20. The Use of Fluorescent Markers to Detect and Delineate Head and Neck Cancer: A Scoping Review.Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Stan van KeulenDivision of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Naoki NishioDivision of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Shayan FakurnejadDivision of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Andrew BirkelandDivision of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Brock A MartinDepartment of Clinical Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Guolan LuDivision of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Quan ZhouDivision of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Stefania U ChiritaDivision of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Tymour ForouzanfarDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Oral Pathology, VU University Medical Center/Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
A Dimitrios ColevasDivision of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Nynke S van den BergDivision of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Eben L RosenthalDivision of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California elr@stanford.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although surgical resection has been the primary treatment modality of solid tumors for decades, surgeons still rely on visual cues and palpation to delineate healthy from cancerous tissue. This may contribute to the high rate (up to 30%) of positive margins in head and neck cancer resections. Margin status in these patients is the most important prognostic factor for overall survival. In addition, second primary lesions may be present at the time of surgery. Although often unnoticed by the medical team, these lesions can have significant survival ramifications. We hypothesize that real-time fluorescence imaging can enhance intraoperative decision making by aiding the surgeon in detecting close or positive margins and visualizing unanticipated regions of primary disease. The purpose of this study was to assess the clinical utility of real-time fluorescence imaging for intraoperative decision making.

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Optical ImagingSurgery, Computer-AssistedHead and Neck NeoplasmsHumansImage Processing, Computer-Assistedfluorescence-guided surgeryhead and neck cancerreal-time intraoperative imaging

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PMID30733319
PMCPMC6581234

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