The world's smallest flexible microscope is diagnosing some big diseases and allowing physicians to treat patients on the spot. Dr. Michel Kahaleh, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Virginia Health System, is the only physician in Virginia currently using probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE). pCLE is a technique that lets him view live tissue in real time at the cellular level. This allows the identification of cancer with pinpoint precision and permits precise removal of the diseased tissue...
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