Comparison of indocyanine green-near-infrared fluorescence guided and traditional mediastinal lymphadenectomy during radical esophagectomy : A randomized controlled trial

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BACKGROUND: The extent of lymph node dissection during radical esophagectomy remains a controversial topic. Thus, this study mainly aimed to explore the location of sentinel lymph nodes in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and the application value of the indocyanine green-near-infrared fluorescence system in lymphadenectomy.

METHODS: This randomized controlled clinical trial (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04615806) included 42 participants without neoadjuvant therapy who were lymph node negative based on positron emission tomography/computed tomography findings. Traditional esophagectomy with indocyanine green-near-infrared fluorescence imaging was performed after injecting 0.5 mL indocyanine green (1.25 mg/mL) into the esophageal submucosa in the 4 peritumoral quadrants. The primary endpoint was to determine the location of the sentinel lymph node in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma based on postoperative pathologic reports.

RESULTS: A total of 40 patients, with 20 in each group, were included in the final analysis. In the indocyanine green group, indocyanine green-near-infrared fluorescence imaging was successful in all subjects. Seven cases (cases 2, 3, 9, 11, 17, 18, and 20) in the indocyanine green group exhibited lymph node metastases, all of which were near-infrared positive. The detection rate, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, sensitivity, and specificity were 100% (20 of 20 cases), 8.7% (13/150), 100% (265/265), 100% (13/13), and 65.9% (265/402), respectively. All near-infrared-negative lymph nodes were nonmetastatic lymph nodes. In addition, the number of mediastinal lymph nodes resected in the indocyanine green group was significantly higher than in the non-indocyanine green group.

CONCLUSION: Indocyanine green-near-infrared might be an important and promising technique in predicting sentinel lymph nodes of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and could significantly improve the detection rate of lymph nodes of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:175

Enthalten in:

Surgery - 175(2024), 2 vom: 27. Feb., Seite 347-352

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Du, Jianting [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Taidui [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Shuliang [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Maohui [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Guanglei [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Chi [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Guobing [VerfasserIn]
Ni, Chenhui [VerfasserIn]
Hong, Ruopeng [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Chun [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Bin [VerfasserIn]

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IX6J1063HV
Indocyanine Green
Journal Article
Randomized Controlled Trial

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Date Completed 03.01.2024

Date Revised 01.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04615806

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.surg.2023.10.007

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365040819