Endoscopic submucosal dissection can remove large superficial gastrointestinal lesions in en bloc. A detailed pathological evaluation of the resected specimen is required to assess the risk of recurrence after treatment. However, the current method of sectioning specimens to a thickness of a few millimeters does not provide information between the sections that are lost during the preparation. In this study, we have produced three-dimensional images of the entire dissected lesion for nine samples by using micro-CT imaging system. Although it was difficult to diagnose histological type on micro-CT images, it successfully evaluates the extent of the lesion and its surgical margins. Micro-CT images can depict sites that cannot be observed by the conventional pathological diagnostic process, suggesting that it may be useful to use in a complementary manner.
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Sakamoto, H., Nishimura, M., Teplov, A., Leung, G., Ntiamoah, P., Cesmecioglu, E., … Yagi, Y. (2022). A pilot study of micro-CT-based whole tissue imaging (WTI) on endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) specimens. Scientific Reports, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-13907-6
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