Surgery
Volume 148, Issue 1 , Pages 78-86 , July 2010

Real-time, near-infrared, fluorescence-guided identification of the ureters using methylene blue

  • Aya Matsui, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
    • Division of Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
    • ,
  • Eiichi Tanaka, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
    • Division of Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
    • ,
  • Hak Soo Choi, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Vida Kianzad, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Sylvain Gioux, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Stephen J. Lomnes, MS

      Affiliations

    • GE Healthcare, Princeton, NJ
    • ,
  • John V. Frangioni, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
    • Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: John V. Frangioni, MD, PhD, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Room SL-B05, Boston, MA 02215.

,Accepted 7 December 2009.

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 Supported by National Institutes of Health (National Cancer Institute) Grant #R01-CA-115296 and a sponsored research agreement from GE Healthcare.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00794-6

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.12.003

Surgery
Volume 148, Issue 1 , Pages 78-86 , July 2010

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