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In the last years, the concept of precision surgery has become fundamental for hepatobiliary surgeons during liver guided hepatectomy. Liver reserve function and future liver remnant are quantitatively assessed before surgery using clinical scores, the indocyanine green (ICG) retention rate and 3D reconstruction techniques. Conversely, ICG fluorescence navigation, intraoperative ultrasound and virtual reality technology are becoming fundamental for intraoperative guidance during oncologic liver surgery. Due to its characteristics, ICG fluorescence was introduced in 2010 for the visualization of liver tumors during laparoscopic hepatectomy. After that, it was subsequently used for segmental or lobar visualization of the liver, for intraoperative visualisation tool of the biliary structures and more recently for identification of lymphatic drainage. Although ICG fluorescence navigation has been technically refined over last years, there is still a lack of strong evidence on whether liver resection guided by ICG fluorescence improves the oncologic outcome of patients with hepatobiliary tumors.
Since that reports assessing effectiveness and usefulness of ICG are steadily increasing, due to its potentially wide clinical benefit and its simple and affordable use, this issue aim to collect evidences about the clinical application and standardisation of ICG fluorescence in liver surgery.
In this Research Topic we welcome submissions related to different applications of ICG fluorescence in liver surgery, with a particular focus on its standardisation and its clinical impact on the oncologic outcome of patients suffering from hepatobiliary tumors.
Please note: manuscripts consisting solely of bioinformatics, computational analysis, or predictions of public databases which are not accompanied by validation (independent clinical or patient cohort, or biological validation in vitro or in vivo, which are not based on public databases) are not suitable for publication in this journal.
Since that reports assessing effectiveness and usefulness of ICG are steadily increasing, due to its potentially wide clinical benefit and its simple and affordable use, this issue aim to collect evidences about the clinical application and standardisation of ICG fluorescence in liver surgery.
In this Research Topic we welcome submissions related to different applications of ICG fluorescence in liver surgery, with a particular focus on its standardisation and its clinical impact on the oncologic outcome of patients suffering from hepatobiliary tumors.
Please note: manuscripts consisting solely of bioinformatics, computational analysis, or predictions of public databases which are not accompanied by validation (independent clinical or patient cohort, or biological validation in vitro or in vivo, which are not based on public databases) are not suitable for publication in this journal.
Keywords: ICG fluorescence; Indocyanine green fluorescence; liver segmentation; liver surgery; tumor detection; lymphoadenectomy; cholangiography; surgical oncology
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