Lymphatic flow mapping using near-infrared fluorescence imaging with indocyanine green helps to predict lymph node metastasis intraoperatively in patients with esophageal or esophagogastric junction cancer not treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
Shinichiro ShiomiKoichi YagiRyohei IwataShoh YajimaYasuhiro OkumuraSusumu AikouHiroharu YamashitaSachiyo NomuraYasuyuki SetoPublished in: Surgical endoscopy (2023)
Our protocol potentially helps to predict lymph node metastasis intraoperatively in patients with esophageal or esophagogastric junction cancer undergoing esophagectomy who did not undergo neoadjuvant chemotherapy.