Assessment of breast pathologies using nonlinear microscopy

Rapid intraoperative assessment of breast excision specimens is clinically important because up to 40% of patients undergoing breast-conserving cancer surgery require reexcision for positive or close margins. We demonstrate nonlinear microscopy (NLM) for the assessment of benign and malignant breast pathologies in fresh surgical specimens. A total of 179 specimens from 50 patients was imaged with NLM using rapid extrinsic nuclear staining with acridine orange and intrinsic second harmonic contrast generation from collagen. Imaging was performed on fresh, intact specimens without the need for fixation, embedding, and sectioning required for conventional histopathology. A visualization method to aid pathological interpretation is presented that maps NLM contrast from two-photon fluorescence and second harmonic signals to features closely resembling histopathology using hematoxylin and eosin staining. Mosaicking is used to overcome trade-offs between resolution and field of view, enabling imaging of subcellular features over square-centimeter specimens. After NLM examination, specimens were processed for standard paraffin-embedded histology using a protocol that coregistered histological sections to NLM images for paired assessment. Blinded NLM reading by three pathologists achieved 95.4% sensitivity and 93.3% specificity, compared with paraffin-embedded histology, for identifying invasive cancer and ductal carcinoma in situ versus benign breast tissue. Interobserver agreement was κ = 0.88 for NLM and κ = 0.89 for histology. These results show that NLM achieves high diagnostic accuracy, can be rapidly performed on unfixed specimens, and is a promising method for intraoperative margin assessment.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2014

Erschienen:

2014

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:111

Enthalten in:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 111(2014), 43 vom: 28. Okt., Seite 15304-9

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tao, Yuankai K [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Dejun [VerfasserIn]
Sheikine, Yuri [VerfasserIn]
Ahsen, Osman O [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Helen H [VerfasserIn]
Schmolze, Daniel B [VerfasserIn]
Johnson, Nicole B [VerfasserIn]
Brooker, Jeffrey S [VerfasserIn]
Cable, Alex E [VerfasserIn]
Connolly, James L [VerfasserIn]
Fujimoto, James G [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Breast cancer
Imaging
Journal Article
Nonlinear microscopy
Pathology
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

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Date Completed 17.04.2015

Date Revised 30.03.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1073/pnas.1416955111

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM24276083X