Towards real-time metabolic profiling of a biopsy specimen during a surgical operation by 1H high resolution magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance: a case report.

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Date publication

janvier 2012

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr NAMER Izzie-Jacques


Tous les auteurs :
Piotto M, Moussallieh FM, Neuville A, Bellocq JP, Elbayed K, Namer IJ

Résumé

INTRODUCTION: Providing information on cancerous tissue samples during a surgical operation can help surgeons delineate the limits of a tumoral invasion more reliably. Here, we describe the use of metabolic profiling of a colon biopsy specimen by high resolution magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to evaluate tumoral invasion during a simulated surgical operation. CASE PRESENTATION: Biopsy specimens (n = 9) originating from the excised right colon of a 66-year-old Caucasian women with an adenocarcinoma were automatically analyzed using a previously built statistical model. CONCLUSIONS: Metabolic profiling results were in full agreement with those of a histopathological analysis. The time-response of the technique is sufficiently fast for it to be used effectively during a real operation (17 min/sample). Metabolic profiling has the potential to become a method to rapidly characterize cancerous biopsies in the operation theater.

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J Med Case Rep. 2012 Jan 18;6(1):22