In hepatobiliary surgery, intra-operative indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence imaging use started in the late 2000s with Japanese surgical teams and is now gaining popularity among surgeons all over the world to improve accuracy and safety of surgical procedures.
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Ureteral stenosis and urinary leakage are relevant problems after kidney transplantation. A standardized definition of ureterovesical anastomosis complications after kidney transplantation has not yet been established
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Radical resection for cancer of the splenic flexure requires careful consideration of the dissection line so that blood flow in the remnant bowel is maintained, particularly when the root of the inferior mesenteric artery (IMA) is already occluded.
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ICG fluorescence method can evaluate the presence or absence of bile leakage from the hepatic dissection and the running of the bile duct on the inner wall of the cyst, and is considered to contribute to safer laparoscopic liver cyst fenestration.
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ICG PDR could be used in the donors as a filter to discard poor-quality grafts before procurement and, in the early post-transplant phase, to predict EAD
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Distinguishing between partial-thickness burns and full-thickness burns indicates the critical decision making related to whether a patient can be allowed to heal on their own or if the wound should be surgically excised and replaced with a graft
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The current gold-standard for axillary staging in patients with breast cancer is sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) using radio-guided surgery with radioisotope technetium (99mTc), sometimes combined with blue dye. A promising alternative is fluorescent imaging using indocyanine green (ICG).
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To compare indocyanine green dye fluorescence cholangiography (ICG-FC) with intra-operative cholangiography (IOC) in minimal access cholecystectomy for visualization of the extrahepatic biliary tree.
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The use of near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging with indocyanine green (ICG) has gained popularity in many fields in adult surgery, such as sentinel lymph node mapping, intra-operative solid tumor identification, and organ perfusion assessment.
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A consecutive case series of supraclavicular artery island flaps was designed using indocyanine green angiography (IcG-A) in head and neck reconstruction to demonstrate its utilization in supraclavicular artery island flap (SCAIF) head and neck reconstruction.
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