Giri Krishnan1,2, Nynke S van den Berg1, Naoki Nishio1,3, Shrey Kapoor1, Jaqueline Pei1, Laura Freeman1, Yu-Jin Lee1, Quan Zhou1, Stan van Keulen1, Shayan Farkurnejad1, James Condon4, Fred M Baik1, Brock A Martin5, Eben L Rosenthal6. 1. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California. 2. Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. 3. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. 4. Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia; and. 5. Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California. 6. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; elr@stanford.edu.
Abstract
In head and neck cancer, a major limitation of current intraoperative margin analysis is the ability to detect areas most likely to be positive based on specimen palpation, especially for larger specimens where sampling error limits detection of positive margins. This study aims to prospectively examine the clinical value of fluorescent molecular imaging to accurately identify "the sentinel margin," the point on a specimen at which the tumor lies closest to the resected edge in real-time during frozen section analysis. Methods: Eighteen patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma were enrolled into a prospective clinical trial and infused intravenously with 50 mg of panitumumab-IRDye800CW 1-5 d before surgery. Resected specimens were imaged in a closed-field near-infrared optical imaging system in near real-time, and custom-designed software was used to identify locations of highest fluorescence on deep and peripheral margins. The surgeon identified the sentinel margin masked to optical specimen mapping, and then the regions of highest fluorescence were identified and marked for frozen analysis. Final pathology based on specimen reconstruction was used as reference standard. Results: Resected specimens were imaged in the operating room, and fluorescence had a higher interobserver agreement with pathology (Cohen κ value 0.96) than the surgeon (Cohen κ value of 0.82) for the location of the closest margin. Plotting margin distance at the predicted sentinel margin location of each observer versus the actual closest margin distance at pathology demonstrated best correlation between fluorescence and pathology (R 2 = 0.98) with surgeon (R 2 = 0.75). Conclusion: Fluorescence imaging can improve identification of the sentinel margin in head and neck cancer resections, holding promise for rapid identification of positive margins and improved oncologic outcomes.
In head and neck cancer, a major limitation of current intraoperative margin analysis is the ability to detect areas most likely to be positive based on specimen palpation, especially for larger specimens where sampling error limits detection of positive margins. This study aims to prospectively examine the clinical value of fluorescent molecular imaging to accurately identify "the sentinel margin," the point on a specimen at which the tumor lies closest to the resected edge in real-time during frozen section analysis. Methods: Eighteen patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma were enrolled into a prospective clinical trial and infused intravenously with 50 mg of panitumumab-IRDye800CW 1-5 d before surgery. Resected specimens were imaged in a closed-field near-infrared optical imaging system in near real-time, and custom-designed software was used to identify locations of highest fluorescence on deep and peripheral margins. The surgeon identified the sentinel margin masked to optical specimen mapping, and then the regions of highest fluorescence were identified and marked for frozen analysis. Final pathology based on specimen reconstruction was used as reference standard. Results: Resected specimens were imaged in the operating room, and fluorescence had a higher interobserver agreement with pathology (Cohen κ value 0.96) than the surgeon (Cohen κ value of 0.82) for the location of the closest margin. Plotting margin distance at the predicted sentinel margin location of each observer versus the actual closest margin distance at pathology demonstrated best correlation between fluorescence and pathology (R 2 = 0.98) with surgeon (R 2 = 0.75). Conclusion: Fluorescence imaging can improve identification of the sentinel margin in head and neck cancer resections, holding promise for rapid identification of positive margins and improved oncologic outcomes.
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