Coliseum Northside Hospital adopts Cellvizio technology to identify esophageal disease

Surgeons at HCA hospital Coliseum Northside Hospital in Macon, Ga., have become some of the first in the United States to use Cellvizio to identify precancerous and cancerous cells in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease.

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Cellvizio, advanced endomicroscopy technology from Mauna Kea Technologies, allows surgeons to rule out precancerous or cancerous cells prior to performing anti-reflux surgery. “Instead of taking biopsy tissue to a microscope to identify cancer in patients with GERD, with Cellvizio we are taking the microscopy to the tissue,” said V. John Bagnato, MD, a surgeon at Coliseum Northside Hospital.

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