AMA CPT® Assistant - 2015 Issue 4 (April)
Optical Coherence Tomography During Breast Surgery (0351T-0354T) (April 2015)
April 2015 page 6 Optical Coherence Tomography During Breast Surgery (0351T-0354T) A clean surgical margin, which is important to diminishing or eliminating tumor recurrence and reoperation, has become more of a challenge as increases in breast cancer screening rates have resulted in more numerous and smaller lesions being identified earlier. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an intraoperative high-resolution imaging technique that assesses both excised surgical breast tumor/lymph node margins and margins in the surgical cavity. In this technique, excised breast or lymph node tissue, or the surgical cavity is penetrated by OCT light and intra-operative real-time multidimensional images of...
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