How close are we to real time optical margin control in head and neck oncologic surgery

The quest for negative margins during head and neck oncologic surgery continues to challenge surgeons worldwide. Current technological advances offer significant promise to advance the field and improve operative margin detection. This review focuses on current optical technology, which has been evaluated for intraoperative margin control in head and neck oncologic surgery for possible application in optical margin control. Many of the current systems have technical limitations and there is no current standard technology being applied in the field of head and neck oncology to enhance intraoperative margin control. Surgeons continue to rely on intraoperative frozen section analysis, however many optical systems have shown high rates of sensitivity and specificity when discriminating benign from malignant tissue. These technologies shows significant promise for intraoperative margin control and may be enhanced by targeted molecular imaging, or spectral analysis, in the future. Translational trials are rare and are the key to the path of independence from frozen section analysis.

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