Complete visualization using indocyanine green in thoracic surgery for pulmonary sequestration.

ABSTRACT: Preoperative three-dimensional computed tomography (CT) facilitates accurate identification of aberrant systemic arteries in thoracic surgery for pulmonary sequestration (PS). Furthermore, the boundary between normal and sequestrated lungs can be visualized using the spread of fluorescent indocyanine green (ICG) when performing surgery for PS. This study aimed to determine how to completely visualize anatomical variations, safely treat aberrant arteries, remove only sequestrated lungs, and perform minimally invasive surgery for PS. Seventeen patients underwent lung resection for intralobar PS at our institution between 2009 and 2022. We retrospectively reviewed the surgical outcomes and intraoperative images using ICG to assess the efficacy and feasibility of near-infrared fluorescence ima

SUBMITTER: Nakanishi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10636468 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature