Indocyanine green fluorescence lymphography during gastrectomy after initial endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer.

C K RohS ChoiW J SeoMinah ChoT SonHyoung Il Kim Woo Jin Hyung

Published in: The British journal of surgery (2020)

Fluorescence lymphography successfully visualized all draining LNs after ESD, with high sensitivity and negative predictive value for detecting LN metastasis. Fluorescence lymphography-guided lymphadenectomy could be an alternative to systematic lymphadenectomy during additional surgery after ESD.

Keyphrases

endoscopic submucosal dissection
single molecule
energy transfer
early stage
lymph node
lymph node metastasis
sentinel lymph node
minimally invasive
robot assisted
coronary artery bypass
squamous cell carcinoma
percutaneous coronary intervention