Minimally Invasive Imagery With Indocyanine Green

Summary

Determine if ICG administered pre-operatively, then imaged intraoperatively using our cameras, will aid in the identification of a suspected thoracic nodules, margins, lymph nodes and satellite nodules during minimally invasive procedures. The investigators intend on enrolling 48 Subjects in this study. The study is focusing on patients presenting with suspected thoracic cancers who are considered to be good minimally invasive surgical candidates

Timeline

Start

2014-11

Primary completion

2016-11

Completion

2016-11

Publications

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• Background Kimura T, Muguruma N, Ito S, Okamura S, Imoto Y, Miyamoto H, Kaji M, Kudo E. Infrared fluorescence endoscopy for the diagnosis of superficial gastric tumors. Gastrointest Endosc. 2007 Jul;66(1):37-43. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.01.009.
• Background Gotoh M, Yamamoto Y, Igai H, Chang S, Huang C, Yokomise H. Clinical application of infrared thoracoscopy to detect bullous or emphysematous lesions of the lung. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2007 Dec;134(6):1498-501. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.07.051.

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