Indocyanine green videoangiography for vascular neurosurgery
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Intraoperative indocyanine green videoangiography (ICG-VA) has been widely used in vascular surgery, where vessels are clearly shown as white on a black background. However, other structures cannot be observed during ICG-VA.
Is not absolutely reliable as a stand-alone method during clipping of ophthalmic artery aneurysms and can be complemented with IA. ICGA can be used either as an alternative or complementary technique to IA during aneurysm surgery 1).
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Sharma M, Ambekar S, Ahmed O, Nixon M, Sharma A, Nanda A, Guthikonda B. The
Utility and Limitations of Intraoperative near Infrared Indocyanine Green Video-
angiography (ICGA) in aneurysm surgery. World Neurosurg. 2014 Jun 4. pii:
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Review. PubMed PMID: 24907439.