Comparison of the indocyanine green dye method versus the combined method of indigo carmine blue dye with indocyanine green fluorescence imaging for sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast conservative therapy for stage ≤IIA breast cancer

• Hlavní autoři: Nobuyuki Takemoto (Autor), Ai Koyanagi (Autor), Masanori Yasuda (Autor), Hiroshi Yamamoto (Autor)
• Médium: Kniha
• Vydáno: BMC, 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Témata: article
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Abstract Background Fluorescence imaging (FI) is one of the methods to identify sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs). However, the procedure is technically complicated and requires procedural skills, as SLN biopsy must be conducted in dim light conditions. As an improved version of this method, we introduced...