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  • Peripheral lung nodules with nCLE
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Introducing Cellvizio® needle-based Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (nCLE) for the Assessment of Lung Nodules

Case Study

Live Case Study from the clinic at ERS 2020, see the clinical utility of Cellvizio in 
characterizing lung nodules in real time like never before. 

Summary

Watch the videos to see the criteria of normal lung parenchyma and malignancy criteria.

As Dr. Kramer mentions in the video, the airway criteria are:
1. Elastin fibres  
2. Still image  
3. Bronchial epithelium  

The lung parenchyma criterium is: Alveoli

As mentioned, the malignancy criteria are:
1. Dark, enlarged pleomorphic cells
2. Clumps
3. Directional streaming.

The necrotic tumor criterium is:
loss of contact signal

Courtesy: Prof. dr. Jouke T. Annema and Dr. Tess Kramer, Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands