Detection of breast cancer lymph node metastases in frozen sections with a point-of-care low-cost microscope scanner.

<h4>Background</h4>Detection of lymph node metastases is essential in breast cancer diagnostics and staging, affecting treatment and prognosis. Intraoperative microscopy analysis of sentinel lymph node frozen sections is standard for detection of axillary metastases but requires access t...

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Main Authors: Oscar Holmström, Nina Linder, Hannu Moilanen, Antti Suutala, Stig Nordling, Anders Ståhls, Mikael Lundin, Vinod Diwan, Johan Lundin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208366