Histopathology

New histopathology study findings recently were reported by W. Jerjes and co-researchers

Published in Cancer Weekly, March 30th, 2010

"We compared findings of optical coherence tomography (OCT) with histopathological results of suspicious oral lesions to assess the feasibility of using OCT to identify malignant tissue. Thirty-four oral lesions from 27 patients had swept-source frequency-domain OCT," scientists in London, the United Kingdom report.

"Four variables were assessed (changes in keratin, epithelial, and sub-epithelial layers, and identification of the basement membrane) and from this we calculated whether or not there were architectural changes. These data were then compared with histopathological results. Two clinicians, who were unaware of the clinical and histopathological diagnoses,...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2010-03-30)

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