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Fluorescent cholangiography with direct injection of indocyanine green (ICG) into the gallbladder: a safety method to outline biliary anatomy.
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- Comparative Evaluation of Standard Cholangiography, Intravenous, and Intracholecystic Indocyanine Green Fluorescence Cholangiography During Elective Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Results of a Three-Arm Randomized Trial.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Trial
- Intravenous injection versus transhepatic intracholecystic injection of indocyanine green (ICG) to outline biliary tree during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.BMC surgery · 2024Trial
- Seeing beyond white light: fluorescence for safer laparoscopic cholecystectomy.Frontiers in surgery · 2026Review
- National trends in utilization and readmission following intraoperative cholangiography in gallstone pancreatitis.Surgery open science · 2025Article
- Indocyanine green fluorescence-guided surgery in the emergency setting: the WSES international consensus position paper.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2025Article
- Near-infrared cholangiography with intragallbladder indocyanine green injection in minimally invasive cholecystectomy.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2024Review
- Biliary Anatomy Visualization and Surgeon Satisfaction Using Standard Cholangiography versus Indocyanine Green Fluorescent Cholangiography during Elective Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy assisted by combined intravenous and intracholecystic fluorescent cholangiography: a case report.The Journal of international medical research · 2023Article
- When Critical View of Safety Fails: A Practical Perspective on Difficult Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Review
- Indocyanine green fluorescent cholangiography improves the clinical effects of difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy.Surgical endoscopy · 2023Article
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- Intracholecystic versus Intravenous Indocyanine Green (ICG) Injection for Biliary Anatomy Evaluation by Fluorescent Cholangiography during Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Case-Control Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Achieving the critical view of safety in the difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a prospective study of predictors of failure.Surgical endoscopy · 2021Article
- Fluorescent cholangiography: An up-to-date overview twelve years after the first clinical application.World journal of gastroenterology · 2021Article
- The Efficacy of Intraoperative Fluorescent Imaging Using Indocyanine Green for Cholangiography During Cholecystectomy and Hepatectomy.Clinical and experimental gastroenterology · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeNear infrared cholangiography (NIRC) with indocyanine green (ICG) directly injected into the gallbladder is a novel technique to outline biliary anatomy. The purpose of this article is to analyze the usefulness and feasibility of NIRC as a safety method during laparoscopic cholecystectomies. MATERIAL AND
methodsA case-controlled study comparing 20 patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomies with NIRC with direct injection of ICG into the gallbladder to 20 consecutive standard cholecystectomies. Operative time, length of stay, complications, conversion rates, and biliary injury were analyzed.
resultsBoth groups were comparable in epidemiological characteristics. In the ICG group fluorescent visualization of the junction of the Hartmann pouch and the whole cystic duct was achieved in 16 (80%) patients. Median surgical time was 65 (50-76) and 55 (45-71) min for the ICG and the control group, respectively (p = 0.113). There were no postoperative complications and no biliary duct injuries in any of the groups, and a patient from both groups underwent conversion to open surgery.
conclusionNIRC with direct injection of ICG into the gallbladder is a feasible method that is not time-consuming; it does not require a different learning curve from standard laparoscopic cholecystectomies and has no major complications described so far.
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