Clinical usefulness of a novel fluorescence technique for the intraoperative diagnosis of surgical margins in patients with breast cancer

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Surgery and Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
• ² Ueo Breast Cancer Hospital, Oita, Japan.
• ³ Goryo Chemical, Inc., Sapporo, Japan.
• ⁴ Department of Pathology, Almeida Memorial Hospital, Oita, Japan.
• ⁵ Breast Cancer Centre, Shonan Memorial Hospital, Kamakura, Japan.
• ⁶ Department of Breast Surgery, JCHO Kurume General Hospital, Kurume, Japan.
• ⁷ Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Centre, Yokohama, Japan.
• ⁸ Department of Basic Pathology, National Defence Medical College, Tokorozawa, Japan.
• ⁹ Department of Pathology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan.
• ¹⁰ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Kurume University Medical Centre, Kurume, Japan.
• ¹¹ Department of Pathology, Mie University Hospital, Tsu, Japan.
• ¹² Department of Next-Generation Pathology Information and Networking, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹³ Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan.
• ¹⁴ Graduate School of Medicine and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.