Image-Guided Pediatric Surgery Using Indocyanine Green (ICG) Fluorescence in Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery

Image-guided robotic surgery.

Medical image processing leads to an improvement in patient care by guiding the surgical gesture. Three-dimensional models of patients that are generated from computed tomographic scans or magnetic resonance imaging allow improved surgical planning and surgical simulation that offers the opportunity for a surgeon to train the surgical gesture before performing it for real. These two preoperativ...

Robotic Telescopic Assistance in Pediatric Laparoscopic Surgery

With the advent of the twenty-first century, there is a rapid evolution in the application of robotic technology for operative procedures. Currently, this technology is available in two forms: robotic telescopic assistance using AESOP® (Computer Motion, Goleta, California); and robotic applications for procedural laparoscopy through either the da Vinci® (Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, Californi...

Advances in laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer: fluorescence- guided surgery

Laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer (CRC) has been thoroughly investigated in a multitude of studies and has proved to have equivalent oncologic outcomes to open surgery, yet with the advantages of minimal tissue trauma, shorter hospital stay and quicker recovery. Recent advances in laparoscopic surgical treatment of CRC have been introduced in attempt to enhance the technique and improv...

Retina: indocyanine green (ICG) angiography.

Real-time Vessel Navigation Using Indocyanine Green Fluorescence during Robotic or Laparoscopic Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer

PURPOSE Identification of the infrapyloric artery (IPA) type is a key component of pylorus-preserving gastrectomy. As the indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence technique is known to help visualize blood vessels and flow during reconstruction, we speculated that this emerging technique would be helpful in identifying the IPA type. MATERIALS AND METHODS From August 2015 to February 2016, 20 pati...