Hosogi, Hisahiro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1039-6139
Yagi, Daisuke
Sakaguchi, Masazumi
Akagawa, Shin
Tokoro, Yukinari
Kanaya, Seiichiro
Article History
Received: 3 August 2020
Accepted: 7 October 2020
First Online: 19 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose.
: All the studies were conducted in accordance with the ethics of the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the ethics committee of Japanese Red Cross Osaka Hospital (IRB J-0124). In the preoperative ICG injection study, written informed consent was obtained from all the patients. The requirements to obtain individual patient consent in the NIR image-guided lymphatic mapping study and the mid- to long-term study were waived given the retrospective nature of the studies.