Lugol's Iodine-Enhanced Micro-CT : A Potential 3-D Imaging Method for Detecting Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma Specimens in Surgery

Copyright © 2020 Xia, Gan, Pan, Hu, Zhou, Chen, Zhang, Hu and Wang..

BACKGROUND: A positive surgical margin (PSM) following oral cancer resection results in local recurrence and poor prognosis. Mono-block tumor specimens, especially from the tumor base, are difficult to evaluate. This inaccurate sampling ultimately leads to a false pathological diagnosis. Lugol's iodine (I2-IK)-enhanced micro-CT is an emerging method to image tumor specimens. This study explores the feasibility of I2-IK-enhanced micro-CT to evaluate the surgical margin for tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC) specimens and to further seek optimal staining parameters.

METHODS: Rabbit tongue tissues and human TSCC samples were imaged via I2-IK-enhanced micro-CT. The optimal I2-IK concentration and staining time were determined before clinical application using tissue shrinkage, micro-CT image quality, and effect on pathological diagnosis as assessment criteria. Next, 6 TSCC specimens were used to verify the process feasibility of surgical margin imaging with the optimal parameters. Finally, the possible reason by which I2-IK could enhance micro-CT imaging was validated in vitro.

RESULTS: I2-IK staining influenced specimen shrinkage, micro-CT image quality, and pathological image quality in a concentration- and time-dependent manner. After comprehensively considering these indicators, 3% I2-IK staining for 48 and 12 h were found to be optimal for rabbit tongue tissues and TSCC samples, respectively. This method could provide a detailed 3-D structure of TSCC samples compared with H&E sections. Moreover, tumor and normal tissues could be differentiated by their glycogen content, which has high affinity with I2-IK.

CONCLUSIONS: I2-IK-enhanced micro-CT could, thus, indicate the tumor margin and assist pathological sampling in patients with TSCC postoperation.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in oncology - 10(2020) vom: 28., Seite 550171

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Xia, Cheng-Wan [VerfasserIn]
Gan, Rong-Lin [VerfasserIn]
Pan, Jiong-Ru [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Shi-Qi [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Qun-Zhi [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Shen [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Qin-Gang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yu-Xin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

I2-IK
Journal Article
Micro-CT
Pathological examination
Surgical margin
TSCC specimens

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Date Revised 18.04.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fonc.2020.550171

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM317620053