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Quantitative assessment of visual estimation of the infrared indocyanine green imaging of lymph nodes retrieved at sentinel node navigation surgery for gastric cancer

BACKGROUND: Although the infrared indocyanine green (ICG) imaging is an effective method to identify sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) of gastric cancer, its objectivity has not been verified. METHODS: We studied 563 lymph nodes under infrared light observation from the ICG-positive lymphatic basins of 36...

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Autores principales: Takahashi, Naoto, Nimura, Hiroshi, Fujita, Tetsuji, Yamashita, Shigeo, Mitsumori, Norio, Yanaga, Katsuhiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4888669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27245664
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-016-0152-3