How effective is indocyanine green (ICG) in localization of malignant pulmonary nodules? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Video-Assisted and Robotic-Assisted techniques become constantly more prominent practice in thoracic surgery for lung cancer. Furthermore, the increased frequency in detection of small lung cancers makes the intra-operative identification of these cancers even more challenging. Indocyanine Green (ICG) is one of the most commonly used dyes that assists surgeons identify small lung cancers intra-operatively. Our study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of ICG in lung cancer detection.

Methods

We performed a systematic review of the literature by screening the databases of MEDLINE, EMBASE, CENTRAL and Scopus until 30th April 2022 and the first 300 articles of Google Scholar for any suitable grey literature. We included any study that investigated the effe

SUBMITTER: Gkikas A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9357917 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature