Getting closer look at gallstones
Removing large gallstones or those found in out-of-the-way places used to require surgery.
Now it doesn't.
With the SpyGlass Direct Visualization System at Integris Baptist Medical Center, gallstone removal takes less than an hour and requires no incisions. It uses a small flexible tube with a light and video camera at the end.
The fiber-optic probe — which has 6,000 fiber bundles in its less than 1 milli...
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