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. 2023 Jan 18;408(1):38.
doi: 10.1007/s00423-023-02808-5.

Timing of real-time indocyanine green fluorescence visualization for lymph node dissection during laparoscopic colon cancer surgery

Hiromitsu Kinoshita  1 , Kenji Kawada  2   3 , Yoshiro Itatani  1 , Ryosuke Okamura  1 , Nobu Oshima  4 , Tomoaki Okada  5 , Koya Hida  1 , Kazutaka Obama  1
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Timing of real-time indocyanine green fluorescence visualization for lymph node dissection during laparoscopic colon cancer surgery

Hiromitsu Kinoshita et al. Langenbecks Arch Surg. .

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Abstract

Purpose: Although numerous studies have highlighted the potential value of indocyanine green (ICG) imaging in lymph node dissection of cancer surgery, its efficacy and optimal method remain to be clarified. This study aimed to investigate how lymphatic flow observation via ICG fluorescence could contribute to colon cancer surgery.

Methods: From October 2018 to March 2021, a total of 56 patients with colon cancer who underwent laparoscopic complete mesocolic excision with intraoperative ICG imaging were analyzed. Lymphatic flow was examined at the following time points following ICG injection: within 5 min, 30-60 min, and over 60 min. We also evaluated the distribution of ICG fluorescence per each vascular pedicle.

Results: Lymphatic flow was observed within 5 min following ICG injection in 6 cases (10.7%), and at 30-60 min following ICG injection in 43 cases (76.8%). ICG-stained vascular pedicles were variable especially in hepatic flexural, transverse, and splenic flexural colon cancer. Lymph node metastases were observed in 14 cases. Although metastatic lymph nodes were present only in the area along the ICG-stained vascular pedicles in 12 of the 14 cases, two patients exhibited lymph node metastasis in areas along the ICG-unstained vascular pedicles. ICG fluorescence was observed outside the standard range of lymph node dissection in 9 cases (20.9%: 9/43). Although addition of the proposed resection areas was made in 8 of these 9 cases, there was no pathologically positive lymph node.

Conclusion: Real-time ICG fluorescence imaging of lymph nodes may improve the performance of laparoscopic colon cancer surgery, although its oncological benefit is not yet clear.

Keywords: Colorectal cancer; ICG fluorescence; Laparoscopic surgery; Lymph node dissection.

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