Usefulness of indocyanine green-fluorescence imaging for real-time visualization of pancreas neuroendocrine tumor and cystic neoplasm

Abstract

We evaluated the usefulness of fluorescence imaging using indocyanine green to identify pancreas tumors in 23 patients undergoing pancreas resection. This technique was useful in visualizing pancreas lesions during surgery, specifically, neuroendocrine tumors as fluorescence and cystic neoplasms as a fluorescence defect.

Keywords: fluorescence imaging (FI); indocyanine green (ICG); neuroendocrine tumor (NET); pancreas cystic neoplasm; pancreas lesion; pancreas resection.