Thoracic Cancer | 2021
Feasibility investigation of near‐infrared fluorescence imaging with intravenous indocyanine green method in uniport video‐assisted thoracoscopic anatomical segmentectomy for identifying the intersegmental boundary line
Abstract
To investigate the perioperative outcomes of patients who underwent uniport video‐assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) segmentectomy for identifying the intersegmental boundary line (IBL) by the near‐infrared fluorescence imaging with the intravenous indocyanine green (ICG) method or the modified inflation‐deflation (MID) method and assess the feasibility and effectiveness of the ICG fluorescence (ICGF)‐based method.