Nd: YAG Laser
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Our cancer doctors use the Nd: YAG laser to shrink or destroy tumors and/or to relieve symptoms in difficult-to-reach areas of the body, such as the lungs, esophagus or colon.
The Nd: YAG (neodymium: yttrium-aluminum-garnet) laser uses a high power laser beam that literally burns, or “vaporizes,” the tumor. The cancer is evaporated, and the vapor is then suctioned out through an endoscope or bronchoscope.
The Nd: YAG laser is often used to treat large obstructive masses that can’t be removed surgically, but are causing symptoms, such as bleeding or obstruction. For example, it may be used to remove an obstruction in the esophageal tract to relieve swallowing difficulties, or in the airways to improve breathing.
Advantages of the Nd: YAG Laser
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It allows us to literally vaporize and coagulate a tumor
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It can help to reduce the risk of infection at the surgical site
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Healing time is often shorter than with traditional surgical procedures
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The laser is particularly good for its ability to quickly clot blood
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It may be an option for patients who cannot have surgery
Interventional Pulmonology
- Airway Stent removal, modification and maintenance (for stents placed by previous physicians)
- Airway Stents
- All Digital: Portable Fluoroscopy and X-Rays
- Argon Plasma Coagulation (APC)
- AuroLase® Therapy
- Autofluorescence Bronchoscopy / Fluorescence Bronchoscopy
- Balloon Bronchoplasty
- Brachytherapy (see High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy )
- Bronchoscopy
- Cardiopulmonary Services
- Cryotherapy
- CT Angiography
- CT Respiratory Gating
- Embolization
- Endobronchial Brachytherapy
- Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS)
- Endobronchial Valve
- Fiducial Marker Placement
- Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA)
- HAST Testing-High Altitude Simulation Studies
- High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy
- Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Filter Placement
- Interventional Angiography
- Interventional Pulmonology
- IVC Filter Placement
- Kyphoplasty
- Laser Bronchoscopy
- Lobectomy
- Lung Biopsy
- Lung Capacity Studies
- Lung Nodule Analysis
- Medical Pleuroscopy
- Navigational Bronchoscopy
- Nd: YAG Laser
- PDT with cold laser tumor-specific tissue destruction
- Photodynamic Therapy (PDT)
- PICC Lines
- Pleurodesis (with chemotherapy or talc) / Pleuroscopy
- Pneumonectomy
- Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT)
- Quantitative Ventilation Perfusion Studies
- Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA)
- Respiratory Gating
- Rigid Ventilating Bronchoscopy & Flexible Bronchoscopy
- Segmentectomy
- Full Service Sleep Center at Eastern (also see Sleep Lab at Southwestern)
- Sleep Medicine (see Sleep Center at Eastern, or Sleep Lab at Southwestern)
- SpyGlass™ (Cholangioscopy)
- Super-Dimension GPS Bronchoscopy
- Thoracentesis
- Thoracentesis and Pleural Biopsy
- Thoracic Surgery
- Thoracotomy
- Thrombolysis
- Transbronchial Needle Aspiration
- Vertebroplasty / Vertebral Ablation (see Kyphoplasty)
- Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)
- X-Ray
