Ex vivo indocyanine green fluorescence imaging for the detection of lymph node involvement in advanced-stage ovarian cancer.

Catalin-Florin PopIsabelle VeysMaria Gomez GaldonMichel MoreauDenis LarsimontVincent DonckierPierre BourgeoisLiberale Gabriel

Published in: Journal of surgical oncology (2018)

Ex vivo ICG-FI of retroperitoneal LNs in AOC had good sensitivity but poor specificity. However, its high negative predictive value could make it an appropriate complementary tool to focus pathological analysis on fluorescent LNs.

Keyphrases

fluorescence imaging
lymph node
photodynamic therapy
label free
quantum dots
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
living cells
loop mediated isothermal amplification
sentinel lymph node
squamous cell carcinoma
minimally invasive
structural basis