Mechanistic background and clinical applications of indocyanine green fluorescence imaging of hepatocellular carcinoma

Autor: Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Shingo Tsuji, Yutaka Midorikawa, Junichi Kaneko, Shouichi Satou, Masashi Fukayama, Yasuteru Urano, Yoshikuni Kawaguchi, Norihiro Kokudo, Koichi Masuda, Takeaki Ishizawa, Junji Shibahara, Hiroyuki Aburatani
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Annals of surgical oncology. 21(2)
ISSN: 1534-4681
Popis: Although clinical applications of intraoperative fluorescence imaging of liver cancer using indocyanine green (ICG) have begun, the mechanistic background of ICG accumulation in the cancerous tissues remains unclear. In 170 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma cells (HCC), the liver surfaces and resected specimens were intraoperatively examined by using a near-infrared fluorescence imaging system after preoperative administration of ICG (0.5 mg/kg i.v.). Microscopic examinations, gene expression profile analysis, and immunohistochemical staining were performed for HCCs, which showed ICG fluorescence in the cancerous tissues (cancerous-type fluorescence), and HCCs showed fluorescence only in the surrounding non-cancerous liver parenchyma (rim-type fluorescence). ICG fluorescence imaging enabled identification of 273 of 276 (99 %) HCCs in the resected specimens. HCCs showed that cancerous-type fluorescence was associated with higher cancer cell differentiation as compared with rim-type HCCs (P
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