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Table 1 Clinical studies of ICG tracing of gastrointestinal tumours

From: Opportunities and challenges of indocyanine green in gastrointestinal cancers for intraoperative and nano-medicine application

Year

Tumour type

Sample size

T stage

Tumour diameter (mm)

Concentration (g/L)

Injection site

Mean SLN

Sensitivity (%)

2004 (Nimura et al. 2004)

GC

84

T1–T2

NA

5

SS

10.5

100

2006 (Nagata et al. 2006)

CRC

48

T1–T3

NA

5

SS

3.5

53.6

2007 (Ohdaira et al. 2007)

GC

52

T1

NA

5

SS

NA

100

2007 (Ishikawa et al. 2007)

GC

16

T1–T2

21

5

SS

2.9

50

2008 (Kusano et al. 2008)

CRC

26

T1–T3

NA

5

SM

2.6

33.3

2008 (Kusano et al. 2008)

GC

22

T1–T3

NA

5

SM

3.6

40

2008 (Noura et al. 2008)

CRC

25

T2–T3

58

5

SM

3

100

2008 (Noura et al. 2008)

CRC

25

T2–T3

58

5

SM

3

100

2009 (Ohdaira et al. 2009)

GC

30

T1–T2

42.6

5

SS

4.8

100

2009 (Tajima et al. 2009)

GC

30

T1–T3

NA

5

SS

7.2

64.7

2010 (Noura et al. 2010a)

CRC

25

T1–T3

45

5

SM

3

100

2010 (Kelder et al. 2010)

GC

212

T1

30

5

SS

6

97

2010 (Tajima et al. 2010)

GC

38

T1–T2

33.8

5

NA

7.9

75

2011 (Hutteman et al. 2010)

CRC

24

T1–T4

40

NA

SS/SM

3

NA

2011 (Miyashiro et al. 2011)

GC

10

T1

NA

NA

NA

3

100

2012 (Hirche et al. 2011)

CRC

26

T1–T4

NA

5

SS

1.7

82

2012 (Cahill et al. 2012)

CRC

18

T1–T3

NA

NA

SM

4.1

100

2012 (Yano et al. 2012)

GC

130

T1–T2

NA

0.5

SS

NA

100

2013 (Pas et al. 2013)

CRC

14

T2–T3

45

2.5

SS

4

NA

2013 (Schaafsma et al. 2013)

CRC

22

T1–T4

37

NA

SM

3.5

NA

2016 (Tummers et al. 2016)

GC

22

T1–T4

35

0.031

SM

3.1

75

2016 (Kinami et al. 2016)

GC

72

T1–T3

27.6

0.05

SS

6

90.9

2016 (Takahashi et al. 2016)

GC

36

T1–T2

NA

5

SS

9.2

100

2016 (Liberale et al. 2016)

CRC

20

Tis, T1–T4

39

0.5

SS

7

57

2017 (Watanabe et al. 2016)

CRC

31

NA

NA

2.5

SM

NA

NA

2017 (Takahashi et al. 2017)

GC

44

T1

24.8

5

SS

7.9

100

2017 (Andersen et al. 2017)

CRC

29

T1–T4

NA

2.5

SS

1.8

33

2017 (Currie et al. 2017)

CRC

30

T1–T4

37

5

SM

3

33

2017 (Weixler et al. 2017)

CRC

50

T1–T4

NA

0.5

SS

4.4

64

2018 (Shida et al. 2018)

GC

60

T1

23

NA

SS

5

100

2018 (Okubo et al. 2018)

GC

17

T1–T2

19.6

NA

SS

4.5

100

2019 (Kim et al. 2019)

GC

28

T1

16

NA

SS

NA

100

  1. GC gastric cancer, CRC colorectal cancer, SLN sentinel lymph node, NA not available, SM submucosal, SS subserosal