Cision Vision - lymph node grossing

[caffeinegirl]

Anybody using assisted lymph node grossing techniques such as Cision Vision?
Sounds like a super helpful concept!

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[Zarniwoop]

Looks great, but can you use the same/similar billing code as when using specimen radiography to assist with grossing breast excisions?

Might also be an issue with grossing station space?

 

[octopusprime]

Will this prevent the breast surgeons from sending 10 "sentinel" lymph nodes for frozen or will it make them send down 20?...

IMO it seems more useful for intraoperative purposes. I don't think I'd invest in something like this to identify nodes at the grossing bench...that's what I pay the PA to do...and whether they find a potential node via visual or palpable identification or some expensive machine, they're still going to send it through as a "possible node".

Large axillary dissections just don't happen as often as they used to, and for colon cases, I think nodes are easy enough to find unless it's post-treatment, in which case the PA is still going to send through fat for "possible node identification."

 

[Napoleon1801]

Anybody using assisted lymph node grossing techniques such as Cision Vision?
Sounds like a super helpful concept!

Would be a great teaching tool.