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Investigation of the usefulness of intraoperative indocyanine green injection for assessing lymphatic pathway in hepatobiliary cancers

Basic Information

Recruitment status	Recruiting
Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studied	Hepatobiliary cancer
Date of first enrollment	07/04/2026
Target sample size	20
Countries of recruitment
Study type	Interventional
Intervention(s)	Local injection of indocyanine green around tumor at the surgery

Outcome(s)

Primary Outcome	Intraoperative ICG fluorescence-guided identification of positive lymph nodes: number and distribution
Secondary Outcome	1)The presence or absence of histopathological metastasis in ICG fluoescence positive lymph nodes and their numbers 2)Patterns and directions of lymphatic flow visualized by ICG fluorescence

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Age minimum	>= 18age old
Age maximum	Not applicable
Gender	Both
Include criteria	1)Patients who are diagnosed with hepatobiliary cancer by preoperative imaging and scheduled to undergo curative resection 2)Patients aged 18 years or older at the time of informed consent 3)Written informed consent
Exclude criteria	1)Allergic hypersensitivity of the indocyanine green 2)Patients with past history of surgical treatment for hepatobiliary cancer 3)Patients who were judged inappropirate to participate this study by investigators