TY - JOUR
T1 - Nanosurgical resection of malignant brain tumors
T2 - Beyond the cutting edge
AU - Rutka, James T.
AU - Kim, Betty
AU - Etame, Arnold
AU - Diaz, Roberto J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2014/10/28
Y1 - 2014/10/28
N2 - Advances in surgical procedures and improvements in patient outcomes have resulted from applications of new technologies in the operating room over the past three decades. All surgeons would be excited about the possibilities of improving their resections of tumors for patients with cancer if a new technology were introduced to facilitate this. In this issue of ACS Nano, Karabeber et al. use a hand-held Raman scanner to probe the completeness of resection of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most malignant brain cancer, in a genetically engineered mouse model. They show that the hand-held scanner could accurately detect gold-silica surface-enhanced Raman scattering nanoparticles embedded within the GBM, resulting in a complete tumor resection. In this Perspective, we review potential applications of nanotechnologies to neurosurgery and describe how new systems, such as the one described in this issue, may be brought closer to the operating room through modifications in nanoparticle size, overcoming the obstacles presented by the blood-brain barrier, and functionalizing nanoparticle conjugates so that they reach their target at highest concentrations possible. Finally, with adaptations of the actual hand-held Raman scanner device itself, one can envision the day when "nanosurgical" procedures will be a part of the surgeons armamentarium.
AB - Advances in surgical procedures and improvements in patient outcomes have resulted from applications of new technologies in the operating room over the past three decades. All surgeons would be excited about the possibilities of improving their resections of tumors for patients with cancer if a new technology were introduced to facilitate this. In this issue of ACS Nano, Karabeber et al. use a hand-held Raman scanner to probe the completeness of resection of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most malignant brain cancer, in a genetically engineered mouse model. They show that the hand-held scanner could accurately detect gold-silica surface-enhanced Raman scattering nanoparticles embedded within the GBM, resulting in a complete tumor resection. In this Perspective, we review potential applications of nanotechnologies to neurosurgery and describe how new systems, such as the one described in this issue, may be brought closer to the operating room through modifications in nanoparticle size, overcoming the obstacles presented by the blood-brain barrier, and functionalizing nanoparticle conjugates so that they reach their target at highest concentrations possible. Finally, with adaptations of the actual hand-held Raman scanner device itself, one can envision the day when "nanosurgical" procedures will be a part of the surgeons armamentarium.
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U2 - 10.1021/nn504854a
DO - 10.1021/nn504854a
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25233362
AN - SCOPUS:84908432136
SN - 1936-0851
VL - 8
SP - 9716
EP - 9722
JO - ACS Nano
JF - ACS Nano
IS - 10
ER -