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Ex Vivo Fluorescence Confocal Microscopy

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Fluorescence Confocal Microscopy (FCM) is an imaging technique able to generate digital images from fresh tissue in real time, without the need for traditional processing. FCM’s capacity to discriminate prostate tissue on bioptic cores in real time was investigated in two prospective clinical trials. In this chapter we are presenting the updated data about the use of FCM applied to robotic prostatectomy in patients with prostate cancer.

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Rocco, B. et al. (2022). Ex Vivo Fluorescence Confocal Microscopy. In: Ren, S., Nathan, S., Pavan, N., Gu, D., Sridhar, A., Autorino, R. (eds) Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05855-4_14

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