Skull bone tumor resection with intraoperative indocyanine green fluorescence imaging: A series of four surgical cases

Background: Skull bone tumor resection is sometimes difficult, when tumor is hidden under the bone surface or similar to the normal bone in appearance. Indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence has been used in various surgical fields for visualizing vascular and tumor tissues. This is the first report t...

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Main Authors: Bunsho Asayama, Kenichi Sato, Takahito Fukui, Masahiro Okuma, Yusuke Nakagaki, Youichi Nakagaki, Toshiaki Osato, Hirohiko Nakamura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-09-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214751916301591