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Identification of Liver Metastasis

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Video Atlas of Intraoperative Applications of Near Infrared Fluorescence Imaging

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Tumor-targeted fluorescence imaging has the potential to advance the present practice of oncological surgery by selectively highlighting malignant tissues intraoperatively. Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence is a promising and novel intraoperative imaging technique that can be applied during liver surgery to identify liver metastases (LM) from various cancers. In addition, indocyanine green (ICG)–based fluorescence imaging for LM is safe and simple; it involves the intravenous injection of ICG, followed by the observation of the liver by NIR fluorescence imaging during surgery. LM can be detected by the emitted fluorescence signal from ICG, which commonly accumulates in the surrounding noncancerous liver tissues that have been compressed by the tumor. This technique provides the particular capacity to identify lesions after chemotherapy and new lesions that are undetectable by conventional diagnostic images. Moreover, by not exposing the fluorescence signal in the tumor lesion, the use of the NIR fluorescence images for guidance helps secure the surgical margins, particularly during laparoscopic hepatectomy and parenchymal-sparing hepatectomy. However, the drawbacks of this technology include a relatively high false-positive rate and the difficulty in visualizing deeply located tumors from the liver surface. With the further development of new tracers by the conjugation of fluorophores to the antibody that targets a specific cancer and the improvement of imaging devices, this technique is expected to be indispensable for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with LM.

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    Tomotake Koizumi, Takeshi Aoki & Masahiko Murakami

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Koizumi, T., Aoki, T., Murakami, M. (2020). Identification of Liver Metastasis. In: Aleassa, E., El-Hayek, K. (eds) Video Atlas of Intraoperative Applications of Near Infrared Fluorescence Imaging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38092-2_16

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