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Would You Operate On This Patient? - October 2015 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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laparoscopic cases, the technology can be extremely helpful in deter- mining if you have a good blood supply or not, and in seeing the bile duct in tricky gallbladder cases. She says the technology takes the place of cholangiograms, a special intraoperative X-ray that can eat up time in the OR. The latest fluorescence imaging systems offer both standard HD images and the fluorescent HD images, so surgeons can switch back and forth between the two during the case. However, Dr. Ross says that while this is a nice advantage in the OR, unless you're frequently performing cholangiograms or often face difficult gallbladder cases, the technology might not be worth the upgrade just yet. OSM E-mail kgapinski@outpatientsurgery.net. 1 0 8 O U T P A T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | O C T O B E R 2 0 1 5

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