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Health: A green light intended to guide doctors
Monday March 18, the France Télévisions teams went to the Paul-Brousse hospital (Val-de-Marne), to follow a medical team using a fluorescent green dye, intended to reveal tumors.
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Monday March 18, the France Télévisions teams went to the Paul-Brousse hospital (Val-de-Marne), to follow a medical team using a fluorescent green dye, intended to reveal tumors.
A revolutionary technique for surgery was filmed for the first time by France Télévisions teams on Monday March 18. Professor Vibert removes a liver tumor at Paul-Brousse hospital (Val-de-Marne), using a green luminescence system. This “kind of augmented reality”allows medical teams to “see better since the product accumulates in the cancer”, explains the surgeon. The big news is on the control screen. When the product is injected, the tumor appears fluorescent green. Impossible for the surgeon to miss.
A preventive process
The dye, called “indocyanine green”, is injected into the patient the day before the operation. It spreads throughout the body, but only stains liver cancer cells. Thanks to this technique, the surgeon is better guided and can be more precise in his incisions. Almost one in ten times, it helps to unseal any other cancer cells that have not been identified.
