Novel endoscopic imaging techniques toward in vivo observation of living cancer cells in the gastrointestinal tract

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 334-337

  Inoue, Haruhiro ^a,b   Kudo, Shin Ei ^a   Shiokawa, Akira ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY NORTHERN YOKOHAMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy system; Endocytoscopy; Endomicroscopy; Laser scanning confocal microscopy

Indexed keywords

CANCER CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOENDOSCOPY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYSTOSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; EARLY CANCER; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; LASER MICROSCOPY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STAINING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; EVALUATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EVALUATION STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY;

EID: 21844431674     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000083595     Document Type: Review

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