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Representative TPEF/SHG images and corresponding H&E stained image of fibrocystic diseases of breast. (a) TPEF image (color-coded red) of the cysts filled with cystic fluid (white arrows); (b) SHG image (color-coded green) of collagen fibers surrounding cysts; (c) the overlaid image of TPEF and SHG; (d) the corresponding H&E stained image.
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Multiphoton microscopy has attracted increasing attention and investigations in the field of breast cancer, based on two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) and second-harmonic generation (SHG). However, the incidence of breast benign diseases is about 5 to 10 times higher than breast cancer; up to 30% of women suffer from breast benign diseases and...
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Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is a diagnostic method characterized by high sensitivity, specificity and predictive value. In order to obtain uniformed results of FNAC breast changes, the following categories are introduced: C1 (non-representative), C2 (benign), C3 (atypical), C4 (suspected) and C5 (malignant). The purpose of this...
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... 79 Wu et al also found that the breast cyst was a fluid-filled circular to the ovoid lesion with different sizes, which originated from the expansion and expansion of lobular acinus. 73 Normal mammary acinus is composed of two layers of epithelial cells. At the same time, in the cyst, the epithelial cells on the inner surface of the cyst(white arrows in Figure 3(B)) are thinner, and the number of epithelial cells in the cyst is also significantly smaller than that of normal epithelial cells. ...
... And epithelial cells were arranged in the tubes' outline ( Figure 3(C) white arrows), and the tubes also showed significantly smaller tube cavity structure and even disappear. 73,74 Tan et al used SHG microscope to analyze the collagen characteristics of fibroadenoma. 85 Compared with normal tissues, collagen fiber hyperplasia occurs in the interstitium outside the glandular tube. ...
Worldwide, the most common malignancy in women is breast cancer. At present, the gold standard for breast cancer diagnosis, namely pathological analysis, cannot reach the subcellular level, and is unable to provide more physiological information. Multiphoton microscopy (MPM) has its unique advantages, such as label‐free detection, high resolution, low damage, deep imaging depth, low photobleaching and phototoxicity, and so on, which make up for the deficiences of traditional methods. This review mainly introduces the principle of MPM and its applications in breast diseases, especially in monitoring the occurrence, progression, metastasis, and therapy response of tumor. At the same time, the performance and progress of MPM combined with nanomaterials in breast cancer treatment are summarized. Finally, we propose the clinical challenges and future research directions of MPM.
... Glandular thickening mammary gland hyperplasia is one of common types of mammary gland hyperplasia, in which breast acinar and small ducts are focally hyperplasia, and there are varying degrees of connective tissue hyperplasia. In addition, the lobular structure essentially loses its normal form (3). ...
The aim of the present study was to investigate the correlation between human papillomavirus (HPV) type 6/11 and 16/18 infections and glandular thickening mammary gland hyperplasia in order to explore methods for preventing glandular thickening mammary gland hyperplasia. A total of 240 patients with glandular thickening mammary gland hyperplasia who were treated by surgery in our hospital from January 2012 to June 2017 were enrolled in the present study. The hyperplastic breast tissue and adjacent normal breast tissue were taken to test HPV type 6/11 and 16/18 infections using conventional PCR and in situ hybridization techniques. The correlations between HPV type 6/11 and 16/18 infections and glandular thickening mammary gland hyperplasia were analyzed using statistical methods of chi-square test. The infection rates of HPV type 6/11 and 16/18 in the hyperplastic breast tissue were 31.95% and 34.91%, respectively and 11.83% and 14.79% in the normal breast tissue, respectively. The differences were statistically significant (all p<0.05). HPV type 6/11 and 16/18 infections may be closely related to the development of glandular thickening mammary gland hyperplasia, and may be one of the causes of glandular thickening mammary gland hyperplasia.
... In recent years, MPM has become a key technology for biological tissues imaging at the cellular level and can provide high-contrast structural images in the depth of tissues [10][11][12]. Both types of nonlinear interactions occur in biological tissues without the use of exogenous stains. ...
Blood vessels are the important components of the circulatory systems that transport blood throughout the human body and maintain the homeostasis of physiological tissues. Pathologically, blood vessels are often affected by diseases, leading to the formation of unstable, irregular, and hyperpermeable blood vessels. In the tumor microenvironment, abnormal leakage of tumor blood vessels is related to the histological grade and malignant potential of tumors and may also facilitate metastasis of cancer. Visual diagnosis of blood vessels is very important for us to understand the occurrence and development of diseases. Multiphoton microscopy (MPM) is a potential label-free diagnostic tool based on second harmonic generation (SHG) and two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF). MPM can effectively observe the morphological changes of biological tissues at the molecular and cellular levels. In this work, we demonstrate that label-free MPM can be used to visualize the microstructure of blood vessels in human normal breast and breast tumor tissue. Moreover, MPM can monitor the changes of blood vessels in tumor microenvironment. These results show that the MPM will become a promising technique for clinicians to study the properties of the microstructure of the blood vessels.
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The issue of classifying esophageal cancer at various developmental stages is crucial for determining the optimized treatment protocol for the patients, as well as the prognosis. Precision improvement in staging esophageal cancer keeps seeking quantitative and analytical imaging methods that could augment histopathological techniques. In this work, we used nonlinear optical microscopy for ratiometric analysis on the intrinsic signal of two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) and second harmonic generation (SHG) from single collagen fibers only in submucosa of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). The blind tests of TPEF/SHG and forward (F)/backward (B) SHG were demonstrated to compare with the histology conclusion. The discussion of sensitivity and specificity was provided via statistical comparison between the four stages of esophageal cancer. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of using these two ratios in combination for staging ESCC.
