The Clinical Value of Fluorescent Lymphography with Indocyanine Green During Robotic Surgery for Gastric Cancer: a Matched Cohort Study.

Fabio CianchiGiampiero IndennitateBeatrice PaoliManuela OrtolaniGabriele LamiNatalia ManettiOttaviano TarantinoSara MesseriCaterina FoppaBenedetta BadiiLuca NovelliIleana SkalameraTommaso NelliFrancesco CorattiGiuliano PerigliFabio Staderini

Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2019)

Our study indicates that NIR imaging with ICG may provide additional node detection during robotic surgery for gastric cancer. Unfortunately, this technique failed to show good selectivity for metastatic lymph nodes.

Keyphrases

lymph node
fluorescence imaging
high resolution
squamous cell carcinoma
small cell lung cancer
label free
photodynamic therapy
quantum dots
living cells
fluorescent probe
loop mediated isothermal amplification
drug delivery
drug release
real time pcr
single molecule