Takeaki Ishizawa, MD, PhD, FACS, Muga Terasawa, MD, Masayuki Tanaka, MD, PhD, Genki Watanabe, MD, Yoshinori Takeda, MD, Hirofumi Ichida, MD, PhD, Ryota Matsuki, MD, Masaru Matsumura, MD, Taigo Hata, MD, Yoshihiro Mise, MD, PhD, Yosuke Inoue, MD, PhD, Yu Takahashi, MD, PhD, Akio Saiura, MD, PhD. Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research
Since 2008, we have applied intraoperative fluorescence imaging using indocyanine green (ICG) to real-time visualization of the bile ducts, hepatic tumors, and hepatic segments during hepatobiliary surgery. With the advent of commercially-available fluorescence imaging system, the ICG-fluorescence imaging techniques have begun to be applied to laparoscopic and robot-assisted surgery widely. Herein, we present a case of laparoscopic hepatectomy for colorectal liver metastases, in which intraoperative ICG-fluorescence imaging was effective for identification of the tumors and evaluation of hepatic perfusion.