LASER DIAGNOSTICS OF CANCER
Division of Gastroenterology Tel Aviv Medical Center
Cancer Treatment -

Managed laser device for the diagnosis of precancerous changes, not requiring the use of biopsy, entered service department of gastroenterology at the Tel Aviv Medical Center. To date, the department of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver in the Tel Aviv Medical Center, with the help of new technology has successfully treated hundreds of patients.

This is a new method of diagnosis and treatment, called endomikroskopiya. The device is working with a laser control allows you to find changes in the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract, a pre-cancerous conditions. These changes became possible to find during endoscopy, without taking samples from the biopsy of suspicious sites.

The new technique has been used successfully in diagnosing diseases characterized by high risk of cancerous degeneration of mucosal cells.

These include:

• esophagus Bereta,
• colitis
• and other diseases of the stomach and intestines.

The work of the new device is based on the well-known technique of endoscopy in combination with intravenous injection into the patient a contrast medium. Normal endoscope supplemented laser nozzle, which allows to obtain particles of material from identified sites with altered mucosa. This method successfully replaces a biopsy, he was very informative, provides a diagnosis in the process of inspection and is gentle to the patient.

Optical technology and laser beam used to study the large intestine during endoscopy, making it possible to study the structure of mucosal cells directly into the process of inspection, without requiring the fence material and the expectations of the results of laboratory analysis. Also during the inspection it is possible to remove the identified changes characteristic of precancerous conditions.

Doctors Gastroenterologists say the microscopic picture obtained Detect changes in the mucous membrane, which under normal endoscopic examination not seem suspicious (flat polyps), and precancerous changes in chronic inflammatory diseases of the colon, with such diseases as Barrett’s esophagus, etc.

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