ArticleFrontiers in surgery2022
Indocyanine green near-infrared imaging-guided lymph node dissection during oesophageal cancer surgery: A single-centre experience.
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- Perioperative outcomes and survival of indocyanine green-guided minimally esophagectomy in patients with esophageal cancer: a retrospective comparison study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2026Article
- Case series on the use of the indocyanine green fluorescence real-time imaging technique for lymph node sorting in patients undergoing radical esophagectomy.Journal of thoracic disease · 2024Article
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Abstract
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the feasibility of using indocyanine green (ICG) near-infrared (NIR) imaging during lymphadenectomy for oesophageal cancer. Methods: Eighty-seven patients with primary oesophageal cancer were enrolled in this study. All the enrolled patients received an endoscopic injection of ICG between 40 min and 23 h before surgery. Nodal dissection during surgery was performed under fluorescence imaging visualisation, with the NIR signal shown in purple. ICG Results: Endoscopic peritumoral ICG injection was successfully performed in all patients. Major post-surgery complications included wound infection, pleural effusion, dysphonia, pneumonia and anastomotic fistula. No patients experienced ICG-related adverse events. A total of 2,584 lymph nodes were removed, and the mean number of lymph nodes for each patient was 29.70 ± 9.24. Most of the removed nodes (97.83%) were ICG Conclusions: The use of ICG-NIR imaging during oesophageal cancer surgery can enhance the visualisation of lymph nodes during surgery. It is a feasible, safe and helpful technique for lymphadenectomy.
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