Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

In vivo detection of bile duct pre-cancer with endoscopic light scattering spectroscopy

  • Douglas K. Pleskow,
  • Mandeep S. Sawhney,
  • Paul K. Upputuri,
  • Tyler M. Berzin,
  • Mark F. Coughlan,
  • Umar Khan,
  • Maria Glyavina,
  • Xuejun Zhang,
  • Liming Chen,
  • Conor J. Sheil,
  • Jonah M. Cohen,
  • Edward Vitkin,
  • Yuri N. Zakharov,
  • Irving Itzkan,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Le Qiu,
  • Lev T. Perelman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35780-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Diagnosis of bile duct cancer often occur in advanced stages, leading to poor survival. Here, the authors combine light scattering and diffuse reflectance spectroscopies in a minimally invasive endoscopic technique for directly assessing the malignant potential of the bile duct lining, and demonstrate 97% detection accuracy.