Real-time assessment of surgical margins during radical prostatectomy: a novel approach that uses fluorescence confocal microscopy for the evaluation of peri-prostatic soft tissue

The intra-operative control of surgical dissection still continues to be a matter of interest. The correct plane of dissection sometimes is hardly to be defined and a real-time pathological examination could be useful to assess if benign or malignant prostate tissue still remains at the prostatic fossa.