Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2009
Abstract
The combination of ultraviolet light and fluorescein dye would be considered a simple, reliable and technically easy procedure for diagnosis of intestinal ischemia. The method can be used both for laparotomy when the source of UV light is a Wood´s lamp as well for laparoscopy when the optical filters are placed to the light source of laparoscopic set to produce UV light.
Present clinical experience shows that the method is precise, objective and accessible and that it gives a greater amount of independence to the surgeon allowing him to make the diagnosis of intestinal ischemia.