The team at IRCAD used Mauna Kea’s Cellvizio probe-based Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy system, a miniaturized, flexible, fiber-optic microscope, to aid in the identification of malignant tissue and metastases in the pancreas and surrounding lymph nodes while operating.
In the study, IRCAD researchers used the Cellvizio system to assist in the detection of cancerous cells in the pancreas and surrounding lymph nodes in laboratory rats. The study also showed that the team was able to identify very small metastases that had been initially missed with traditional techniques with Cellvizio, according to the release.
The pre-clinical data from the study is published in the November issue of the American Journal Gastroenterology.
Read the release on the Cellvizio system.
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