NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Last month, Vanderbilt University Medical Center identified a life-saving way to improve medical procedures in real time.
In a brand-new clinical trial, the Head and Neck surgery team at VUMC is using an intraoperative PET-CT scanner inside the operating room.
Inside an oral cancer surgery, Dr. Michael Topf explained that the use of the scanner — which shows the cancer in its entirety — is making history. His team is the first to introduce it into the OR in the United States.
