Taku Aoki

TL;DR: Fluorescent imaging using indocyanine green (ICG) has the potential to detect liver cancers through the visualization of the disordered biliary excretion of ICG in cancer tissues and noncancerous liver tissues compressed by the tumor.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed 434 patients who had undergone an initial resection for HCC and divided them into a multiple or single (n = 308) group according to the number of tumors.

TL;DR: An atomic resection for a single HCC yields more favorable results rather than nonanatomic resection, and multivariate analysis revealed that anatomic resection was a significantly favorable factor for overall and disease-free survivals.

TL;DR: Resection can provide survival benefits even for patients with multiple tumors in a background of Child-Pugh class A cirrhosis, as well as in those with PHT.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that IV injection of ICG would provide luorescent images of the biliary tract without necessitating conventional raiographic IOC, which is disadvantageous in that it exposes the atient and the medical staff to radiation and usually reuires a large and expensive C-arm fluoroscopy machine nd the additional human resources involved.