Fluorescent imaging of indocyanine green (ICG) injection site and its flow in lower limb lymph nodes. (A) Injection site located 2 cm above the inner neck of the lower limb. (B) Injection site ...

In 68% (15/22), only one SLN was identified. Additional non-sentinel nodes were reaped in 27% (6/22). Only 1/29 SLN was identified at Berg's level II, the rest being found at level I. One surgeon ...

is used as a tracer dye in this process. Zhang and his team were among the first in China to use ICG, which is affordable, and has low toxicity, to identify and remove sentinel lymph nodes.

Methylene blue dye is an accurate and cost-effective single agent for sentinel lymph node mapping in breast cancer. Sentinel node identification rate is a more reasonable target for assessment of ...