Indocyanine Green Tracer Using in Laparoscopic Gastrectomy With Lymph Node Dissection

Prospective Randomized Controlled Trials on Clinical Outcomes of Indocyanine Green Tracer Using in Laparoscopic Gastrectomy With Lymph Node Dissection for Gastric Cancer

The purpose of this study is to explore the clinical outcomes of Indocyanine Green Tracer using in laparoscopic gastrectomy with lymph node dissection for gastric adenocarcinoma（cT1-4a, N-/+, M0）.

Indocyanine Green Tracer is often applied in surgery for early gastric adenocarcinoma. Its application in laparoscopic gastrectomy with lymph node dissection for gastric adenocarcinoma is at the stage of cases accumulation, method studying and clinical research. There is no prospective studies to identify the clinical outcomes of Indocyanine Green Tracer using in laparoscopic gastrectomy with lymph node dissection for gastric adenocarcinoma.

On the basis of more than 3000 cases of laparoscopic gastrectomy with lymph node dissection for gastric adenocarcinoma, we want to apply the Indocyanine Green Tracer, a cheap, easy to operate and no radiation pollution way, to predict the positive lymph nodes in gastric adenocarcinoma, to guid the scope of laparoscopic lymph node dissection for gastric adenocarcinoma.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age from 18 to 75 years
• Primary gastric adenocarcinoma (papillary, tubular, mucinous, signet ring cell, or poorly differentiated) confirmed pathologically by endoscopic biopsy
• clinical stage tumor 1-4a (cT1-4a), N-/+, M0 at preoperative evaluation according to the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Cancer Staging Manual Seventh Edition
• No distant metastasis, no direct invasion of pancreas, spleen or other organs nearby in the preoperative examinations
• Performance status of 0 or 1 on Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group scale (ECOG)
• American Society of Anesthesiology score (ASA) class I, II, or III
• Written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Women during pregnancy or breast-feeding
• Severe mental disorder
• History of previous upper abdominal surgery (except laparoscopic cholecystectomy)
• History of previous gastrectomy, endoscopic mucosal resection or endoscopic submucosal dissection
• Enlarged or bulky regional lymph node diameter over 3cm by preoperative imaging
• History of other malignant disease within past five years
• History of previous neoadjuvant chemotherapy or radiotherapy
• History of unstable angina or myocardial infarction within past six months
• History of cerebrovascular accident within past six months
• History of continuous systematic administration of corticosteroids within one month
• Requirement of simultaneous surgery for other disease
• Emergency surgery due to complication (bleeding, obstruction or perforation) caused by gastric cancer
• FEV1<50% of predicted values
• Diffuse; widespread; plastica