ArticleNPJ breast cancer2025
Breast cancer Intraoperative Margin Assessment using specimen PET-CT (BIMAP).
Article in NPJ breast cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Specimen PET-CT Imaging for Intraoperative Margin Assessment in Early-Stage Breast Cancer: The BrIMA Nonrandomized Clinical Trial.JAMA surgery · 2026Article
- Radioguided Surgery and Axillary Management in Breast Cancer: From Molecular Imaging to 3D Navigation Toward Personalized Treatment.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Advanced imaging techniques for tumor intraoperative navigation imaging.Npj imaging · 2026Review
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Abstract
Positive surgical margins in breast-conserving surgery (BCS) for breast cancer occur in 20% of cases, making intraoperative margin assessment (IMA) crucial to avoid re-operations. This study evaluated specimen PET-CT imaging for IMA in 41 patients undergoing BCS. Specimen PET-CT imaging was performed with the ß-CUBE/X-CUBE (MOLECUBES) or the AURA 10 (XEOS). Seven physicians, with varying experience, assessed margin status postoperatively as positive, close (≤1 mm), or negative using PET-CT images at 10 min acquisition time and low reconstructed [
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