Light and optical techniques have made profound impacts on modern medicine, with
numerous lasers and optical devices currently being used in clinical practice to assess …

Simple Summary The clinical management of bladder cancer has been developing in the
past decade, including diagnostic tools and treatment options. Both monotherapy and …

A combination of optical imaging technologies with cancer-specific molecular imaging
agents is a potentially powerful strategy to improve cancer detection and enable image …

Advances in fiber optic technology and miniaturized optics and mechanics have propelled
confocal endomicroscopy into the clinical realm. This high resolution, non-invasive imaging …

Diagnostic cystoscopy in combination with transurethral resection of the bladder tumour are
the standard for the diagnosis, surgical treatment and surveillance of bladder cancer. The …

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the utility, specificity, and sensitivity of intraoperative
confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) to provide diagnostic information during resection of …

PURPOSE: Bladder cancer presents as a spectrum of different diatheses. Accurate
assessment for individualized treatment depends on initial diagnostic accuracy. Detection …

Endomicroscopy is an emerging imaging modality, that facilitates the acquisition of in vivo, in
situ optical biopsies, assisting diagnostic and potentially therapeutic interventions. While …

The landscape of the surgical management of urologic malignancies has dramatically
changed over the past 20 years. On one side, better diagnostic and prognostic tools allowed …

Object Infiltrative tumor resection is based on regional (macroscopic) imaging identification
of tumorous tissue and the attempt to delineate invasive tumor margins in macroscopically …