Finding Lung Cancer Outside the Airways Just Got Easier

Diagnosing solitary lung tumors located outside of a patient's main airways has long been a challenge, but evidence is building around a technology designed to improve access to such tumors. According to data unveiled this week at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Paris, Broncus Medical's Archimedes virtual bronchoscopy navigation system helped to more than double the diagnostic yield for nodules with negative bronchus sign or an airway leading to the nodule. The six-year-old, San Jose, CA-based company said the Archimedes System is the only system of its kind offering real-time virtual bronchoscopic navigation with embedded intra-procedure fused-fluoroscopic guidance, providing a 3D view and access to nodules anywhere in the lung. “It has been historically challenging to accurately diagnose solitary lung tumors located outside of the main airways, especially when they are small, with diagnosis rates only in the 30% range,” said Felix Herth, lead author of the study and chairman of the Department of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine at Thoraxklinik University of Heidelberg, Germany. “By pre-plotting a path to the nodule that avoids the vasculature and navigating through the lung anatomy with three-dimensional, real-time, fluoroscopic guidance, the Archimedes System demonstrated in this study that it aided in more than doubling the diagnostic yield of these challenging tu...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: Imaging Source Type: news