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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A caller exertion present being offered astatine Community Regional is helping doctors observe lung crab acold sooner than ever before.
The caller Galaxy System helps with aboriginal diagnosis and attraction of lung cancer.
"So the Galaxy strategy is the astir caller procreation robotic bronchoscope," said Dr. Pravachan Hegde, a Pulmonologist astatine Community. "It tin scope areas of the lungs, which traditionally we couldn't scope backmost successful the days."
Dr. Hegde has precocious grooming successful Comprehensive Thoracic Endoscopy Techniques and Interventional Pulmonology.
"And with its vision, we tin people antithetic parts of the lungs to sample the spots successful the lungs," helium said.
Dr. Hedge is the lone fellowship-trained board-certified precocious thoracic endoscopist and interventional pulmonologist successful the Central Valley.
He uses a exertion called tomosynthesis for aboriginal crab diagnosis.
"Basically it's a exertion wherever it's an representation integration, wherever it takes the patient's CT scan and besides the fluoroscopy information during the procedure, and it converts to the representation into a 3D, giving america what is called a instrumentality successful lesion confirmation," helium said.
Community Regional Medical Center has 1 of the largest Lung Nodule programs successful the state and was the archetypal to usage the Galaxy System present connected the West Coast.
