Initial experience of virtual-assisted lung mapping utilizing both indocyanine green and indigo carmine

Masahiro Yanagiya; Yoko Amano; Noriko Hiyama; Jun Matsumoto

doi:10.1007/s11748-020-01565-2

Initial experience of virtual-assisted lung mapping utilizing both indocyanine green and indigo carmine

Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 Jun;69(6):1035-1039. doi: 10.1007/s11748-020-01565-2. Epub 2021 Jan 3.

Authors

Masahiro Yanagiya¹, Yoko Amano², Noriko Hiyama², Jun Matsumoto²

Affiliations

¹ Department of General Thoracic Surgery, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, 5-9-22 Higashi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-8625, Japan. myanagiya@mvb.biglobe.ne.jp.
² Department of General Thoracic Surgery, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, 5-9-22 Higashi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-8625, Japan.

Abstract

Virtual-assisted lung mapping is a bronchoscopic multiple dye marking technique that facilitates sublobar lung resections for unidentifiable pulmonary tumors. Marking failure reportedly occurs in 10% of cases. To overcome this limitation, we developed indocyanine green virtual-assisted lung mapping that uses indocyanine green in addition to indigo carmine. Here, we report our initial experience of indocyanine green virtual-assisted lung mapping.

Keywords: Indocyanine green; Thoracic surgery; Virtual-assisted lung mapping.

MeSH terms

Bronchoscopy
Coloring Agents
Humans
Indigo Carmine*
Indocyanine Green
Lung
Lung Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
Lung Neoplasms* / surgery
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

Coloring Agents
Indigo Carmine
Indocyanine Green