Introduction
cancer, thyroid cancer
CANCER, THYROID CANCER
Over the past 50 years, the incidence of thyroid cancer has been rising globally, especially in countries with middle- and high-income populations and it will soon become the fourth most common cancer worldwide (In recent years, near-infrared autofluorescence (NIRAF) imaging has become a real-time intraoperative identification technique for the parathyroid glands. This technology was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2018 (It is impossible to perform NIRAF imaging continuously during surgery because the operating lamp must be removed during exploration. We found that parathyroid glands in different positions could often be identified first at a certain stage of surgery, which was better than visual recognition in most cases. Simultaneously, good imaging depends on the camera angle. Owing to the weak penetrability of fluorescence, its usefulness is also affected when the parathyroid glands are covered by other tissues (more than 5 mm) (From our research data, we developed a more effective detection process to increase the recognition rate for parathyroid glands, minimize the frequency of imaging, and improve the efficiency of intraoperative detection.